But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
Gertrude SteinOne must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.
Gertrude SteinSince it could be done what was the use of doing it, and anyway you always have to stop doing something sometime.
Gertrude SteinThere is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.
Gertrude SteinI think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.
Gertrude Stein