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

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

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

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

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

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