I was somewhat drunk with what I had done. And I am always one to prefer being sober.

— Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers dear Readers are an afterthought.

— Gertrude Stein

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

— Gertrude Stein

Let me listen to me and not to them.

— Gertrude Stein

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

— Gertrude Stein

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

— Gertrude Stein

Money is always there, but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.

— Gertrude Stein

Nature and man are opposed in Spain.

— Gertrude Stein

Nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.

— Gertrude Stein

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

— Gertrude Stein