Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

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

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

It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.

Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.

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

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