Lee’s Reviews > My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein > Status Update

'The experimental pull of Stein's language came to her from learning how to talk about visual art and her friendship with Picasso and from being queer. It came from escaping the tyranny of her father, who had died when she was seventeen. Virginia Woolf in 1928 wrote of the death of her own demanding father, 'His life would have entirely ended mine. What would have happened? No writing, no books; -- inconceivable.''