| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 989 |
| AUTHOR: | Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) |
| QUOTATION: | “What is the answer?” she asked, and when no answer came she laughed and said: “Then, what is the question?” |
| ATTRIBUTION: | GERTRUDE STEIN, last words, according to Elizabeth Sprigge, Gertrude Stein, Her Life and Work, p. 265 (1957).
“What is the answer?… In that case … what is the question?” is the version in What Is Remembered (1963) by Alice B. Toklas, p. 173, though these are not specifically labeled Stein’s last words. |
| SUBJECTS: | Last words |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | WORKS: | Gertrude Stein Collection | | |
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