Gertrude Stein Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotsky and father Blum and father Franco is just commencing now and there are ever so many more ready to be one. Fathers are depressing. England is the only country now that has not got one and so they are more cheerful there than anywhere. It is a long time now that they have not had any fathering and so their cheerfulness is increasing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Country, Depressing, Father

• There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

  Gertrude Stein

  Boyfriend, Depressing, Father

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Everybody's Autobiography”, p.146, Vintage

• Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard. 'Stop!' cried the groaning old man at last, 'Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree.

  Gertrude Stein

  Father, Men, Angry Man

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.32, Northwestern University Press

• It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Father, Son

  Everybody's Autobiography ch. 2 (1937)

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