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.

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

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)

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

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

Life's not all beer and skittles