Gertrude Stein should have been a lawyer
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it. - Form and Intelligibility
or a judge
The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just... I am reasonable because I know the difference between understanding and not understanding and I am just because I have no opinion about things I don’t understand. - Q.E.D.
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She angered people, in no small part I believe, by being so incredibly intelligent and reasonable. They didn't understand how a woman could do that, and she confused and infuriated them.
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