„Kobieta nie powinna chudnąć powinna raczej tyć i tak się na ogół dzieje.”
Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem. Aforyzmy, maksymy, sentencje, wybór i oprac. Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie, Antyk, Kęty 1993, s. 312.
Gertrude Stein – amerykańska powieściopisarka żydowskiego pochodzenia, poetka i feministka. Miała wpływ na rozwój modernistycznej sztuki i literatury. Większość życia spędziła we Francji. Wikipedia
„Kobieta nie powinna chudnąć powinna raczej tyć i tak się na ogół dzieje.”
Źródło: Myślę, więc jestem. Aforyzmy, maksymy, sentencje, wybór i oprac. Czesława i Joachim Glenskowie, Antyk, Kęty 1993, s. 312.
„Adolf Hitler powinien otrzymać pokojową nagrodę Nobla.”
Hitler should have received the Nobel Peace Prize. (ang.)
Warren Lassing, Gertrude Stein Views Life and Politics http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein-views.html, „New York Times”, 6 maja 1934
“I say that Hitler ought to have the peace prize,” she says, “because he is removing all elements of contest and struggle from Germany. By driving out the Jews and the democratic and Left elements, he is driving out everything that conduces to activity. That means peace.” (ang.)
Warren Lassing, Gertrude Stein Views Life and Politics http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/05/03/specials/stein-views.html, „New York Times”, 6 maja 1934
Źródło: Księga toastów i humoru biesiadnego, wybór i oprac. Leszek Bubel, Zamek, Warszawa 1995, s. 150.
“I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.”
As quoted in Red Rabbit : A novel (2002) by Tom Clancy, p. 153
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
How to Write (1931), Ch. 4: A Grammarian [Dover, 1975, ISBN 0-486-23144-5] p. 109
Źródło: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
“I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.”
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
“Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.”
Libretto for the opera The Mother Of Us All by Virgil Thomson (1947), from Last Operas and Plays (1949)
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Quoted by Frederic Prokosch in Voices: A Memoir (1983)
Statement about World War II (written in 1943), p. 77
Wars I Have Seen (1945)
Stein's comment about homosexuality and homophobia, from a conversation with Samuel Steward recounted in Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (1977)
Źródło: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch.3
“Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.”
Libretto for the opera The Mother Of Us All by Virgil Thomson (1947), from Last Operas and Plays (1949)
Źródło: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
"The Capital and Capitals of the United States of America," New York Herald Tribune (9 March 1935)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)
Źródło: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
“Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.”
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
"The Situation in American Writing," Partisan Review (Summer 1939)
How Writing Is Written: Previously Uncollected Writings, vol.II (1974)
Źródło: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 5
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936)
“Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.”
If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1923). First published in Vanity Fair.
Źródło: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 4
Four Saints in Three Acts (1927)
Operas and Plays (1932)