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Quote by Gertrude Stein

“Nothing is more interesting than that something that you eat.”

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Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

“The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none of these things they all want to feel free … The only thing that any one wants now is to be free, to be let alone, to live their life as they can, but not to be watched, controlled and scared, no no, not.”

Want Feels One Thing Scared Controlled Fearful Threatened Obliged

Author:Gertrude Stein

“Forget grammar and think about potatoes”

Thinking Forget Grammar Potatoes

Book:How to Write

Source: How to Write

“In the menu, there should be a climax and a culmination. Come to it gently. One will suffice.”

Should Menus Climax Culmination

Book:Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present

Source: Aromas and Flavors of Past and Present

“As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing.”

Ifs Writing Food Cooking Culinary Cookbook

Author:Alice B. Toklas

“There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal opinion of whether or not I’m disabled. Truthfully, the only real and consistent disability I’ve had to confront is the world ever thinking that I could be described by those definitions.”

Thinking World Important Real Facts Inspiration Motivation Differences Opinion Definitions Medical Objectives Distinction Consistent Disability Healthcare Subjective Disabled Amputees

Author:Aimee Mullins

“If left to their own devices a child will achieve.”

Ifs Children Left Achieve Devices

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don't think of them as disabled. You amputate part of a nose, that's 'enhancement'. You put a prosthetic in a breast cavity, that's 'augmentation'. But you amputate part of a limb and put a prosthetic there, it's 'disability'?”

Thinking Body Half Hollywood Noses Breasts Disability Limbs Disabled Enhancement Prosthetics

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.”

Inspirational Change Creativity Havens Wise Words Innovation Adversity Actresses Hard Times Hardship Making Changes Adapted Positive Change

Author:Aimee Mullins

“Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.”

Wells Care Responsibility Adversity Preparing

Author:Aimee Mullins

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