Gertrude Stein

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

Gertrude Stein (Everybody's Autobiography, 1937)

Let me listen to me and not to them.

Gertrude Stein (Stanzas in Meditation, 1932)

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Gertrude Stein (Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925)