“I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Everybody is a real one to me, everybody is like some one else too to me. No one of them that I know can want to know it and so I write for myself and strangers.“
Remembering Gertrude Stein on her birthday.
Gertrude's & Alice's passport photos! Amazingly they were both the same height (at least according to their passports) 5'2.5". Gertrude wrote a note that they attached to Alice's passport which stated Alice was her secretary and she lived with her in that capacity. That's kinda like Donald Trump calling everyone's attention to something only to deny what it really is.
#WritersOnVacation
#somethingforseptember #septphotochallenge #womenwriters They say she tapped her foot when she wrote and I swear you can hear it in her writing, driving her onward, this great pulse of poetry. Her work reads like an incantation to transform the simple page into Art. No one is more devoted to Art than Stein, man or woman. I couldn't possibly fit all my GS books in a Litsy shot. These are just a few, but they are enough to hear the rhythm of heart.
The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress | 
