There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.
Gertrude SteinFor a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.
Gertrude SteinEvery adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
Gertrude SteinThe only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.
Gertrude Stein