Category Archives: Gertrude Stein

ack to our “cliff-hanger” (an arch comment to post # 12). Back to Gertrude and Alice’s controversial relationship. Was Gertrude Stein frigid? Janet Malcolm (“Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice”) speculates that if there were orgasms it was only Alice who … Continue reading →

Post # 12. “I am really almost despairing, I have really in me a very very melancholy feeling, a very melancholy being, I am really then despairing.” (The Making of Americans) This describes Gertrude before she met Alice, when she … Continue reading →

Post # 12. This is a sketch by Djuna Barnes: Gertrude Stein was a “clinical case of megalomania” (Tristan Tzara). A “dictator of art” (Man Ray). Her writing was a “cold suet-roll of reptilian length…all fat without nerve” (French critic … Continue reading →

Post # 10. “Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.” This family photo shows Gertrude, freshly settled in Paris with brother Leo (left), in 1907, a few years before their friendship faded. I was going to tell you how … Continue reading →

“One cannot come back too often to the question what is knowledge and to the answer knowledge is what one knows.” (“Lectures in America”) Post # 9. So, Gertrude (with Alice, of course) is back in her country and there … Continue reading →

Post # 8: “To have a hat it is as pleasant as that to have a hat.” Arrival in New York, Oct. 24, 1934, welcomed by the press. “The descriptions of what Miss Stein wore, by the male band of … Continue reading →

Post # 5. Today I just call for players: Who’s afraid of Gertrude Stein? Send in, add in your favorite quotes and join the delight and delirium! Here is my favorite quote of the day: “Don’t worry you will.”