You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude…

I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein.

— Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

— Clifton Fadiman

Gertrude Stein, all courage and will, is a soldier of minimalism. Her work, unlike the resonating silences in the art of Samuel Beckett, embodies…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't…

— James Thurber

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all…

— Dorothy Parker

In a notable family called Stein There were Gertrude, and Ep, and then Ein. Gert's writing was hazy, Ep's statues were crazy, And nobody…

— Bennett Cerf

“It may have been Gertrude Stein who wrote that to lead a life of any interest, one must first spend time in Paris. It…

— Brigid Dorsey

“There ain’t no answer. There ain’t going to be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer. —Gertrude Stein”

— Oliver Benjamin

“When Gertrude Stein came to Ann Arbor, my mother said that all she said was, a rose is a rose is a rose is…

— Carol Emshwiller

“Godiva was tired and old and Gertrude Stein in spring bought a new car...”

— Alice B. Toklas

It seems to me that an author who has determined very new domains in literature is Gertrude Stein.

— Raymond Queneau

I murmured to Picasso that I liked his portrait of Gertrude Stein. Yes, he said, everybody said that she does not look like it,…

— Gertrude Stein

It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley…

— Laura Mullen

Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

— Edward Hirsch

He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.

— Anne Carson