Marguerite Radclyffe Hall (12 August 1880 – 7 October 1943) was an English poet and author. She is best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature.
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.
in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
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.
the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
Life's not all beer and skittles
[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
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.
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.
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
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