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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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