When it's hard and you are doubtful, give more.
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.
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.
A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
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
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.
At first I didn't dig country.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
I could see he was having problems taking my punches. I had no problem taking his.