Gertrude Stein

What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage. ”

It is very easy to love alone. ”

What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country. ”

There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more. ”

Just 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. ”

This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition. ”

Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself. ”

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ”

Action and reaction are equal and opposite. ”

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business. ”