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

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

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

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

in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928

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