Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.
Gertrude SteinJust as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
Gertrude SteinA creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.
Gertrude SteinIt is hard living down the tempers we are born with. We all begin well, for in our youth there is nothing we are more intolerant of than our own sins writ large in others and we fight them fiercely in ourselves; but we grow old and we see that these our sins are of all sins the really harmless ones to own, nay that they give a charm to any character, and so our struggle with them dies away.
Gertrude Stein