A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.

I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.

The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)

[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.