Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Men are not amusing during the shooting season; but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
