Radclyffe Hall Quotes

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

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  Mind, Body, Spirit

  Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor

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• 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.

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  Home, Men, Wind

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.273, Radclyffe Hall

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• 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

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  Loneliness, People, Mad

  Title of book (1928)

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

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  Men, Gentleman, Feels

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

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  World, Normal, This World

  Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor

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

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  World, Might, Sand

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.140, Radclyffe Hall

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• 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.

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  People, Misunderstood, Fiction

  "A literature of our own" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2008.

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• [On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

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  Faithful, World, Our Love

  The Well of Loneliness ch. 37 (1928)

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

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  Black, Trying, World

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

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  Self, Expression, Clothes

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.84, Radclyffe Hall

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

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  Heart, May, Mutual Love

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

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  Soul, Coward, Violence

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.129, Radclyffe Hall

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• Life's not all beer and skittles

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  Beer, Skittles

  Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.131, Radclyffe Hall

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

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  Men, Light, Darkness

  Radclyffe Hall (2005). “The Well of Loneliness”, p.214, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

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  Gratitude, War, Thinking

  Radclyffe Hall (1959). “Miss Ogilvy finds herself”

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