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

What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.

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

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

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.