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Gertrude Atherton was an American author known for her novels and short stories, often focusing on social and moral issues, exploring themes such as women, class, and power.

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Famous Gertrude Atherton Quotes

“I am a Californian, and we have twice the individuality and originality of any people in the United States. We always get quite huffy when we are spoken of as merely Americans.”

People States United United States Individuality California Originality Californians Huffy

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.”

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Author:Gertrude Atherton

“A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.”

People Ifs Long Brain Moral Trouble Groups Asking If I Could Reformers

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.”

People Knows Care

Book:The Californians

Source: The Californians

“Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.”

People Whole Roots Senses Branches Propose Roots And Branches

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Authors are far closer to the truths enfolded in mystery than ordinary people, because of that very audacity of imagination which irritates their plodding critics. As only those who dare to make mistakes succeed greatly, only those who shake free the wings of their imagination brush, once in a way, the secrets of the great pale world. If such writers go wrong, it is not for the mere brains to tell them so”

Source: The Bell in the Fog: And Other Stories

About the Author

Born: October 30, 1857
Died: June 14, 1948
Known for: Author
Quotes: 74

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