From "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" by Gertrude Stein

"I always liked Alice Derain. She had a certain wild quality that perhaps had to do with her brutal thumbs and was curiously in accord with her madonna face." (Pg 29)

"We talked hats. Fernande had two subjects hats and perfumes. This first day we talked hats. She liked hats, she had the true french feeling about a hat, if a hat did not provoke some witticism from a man on the street the hat was not a success. Later on in Montmarte she and I were walking together. She had on a large yellow hat and I had on a much smaller blue one. As we were walking along a workman stopped and called out, there go the sun and the moon shining. Ah, said Fernande to me with a radiant smile, you see our hats are a success." (Pg 19)