When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

More from Gertrude Stein

• A diary means yes indeed.
• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
• I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
• It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.
• It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
• Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.