One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.
Gertrude SteinYou look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.
Gertrude SteinI simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods.
Gertrude Stein