The two greatest mannequins of the century were Gertrude Stein and Edith Sitwell- unquestionably. You just couldn't take a bad picture of those two old girls.

Gertrude Stein and a Companion

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

I 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 was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all.