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“Give us also the right to our existence!”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“The eyes of the young are drawn to the stars, and the spirit of youth is seldom earth-bound.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“…we’re all part of nature. Some day the world will recognize this…”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...”
― Sarah Waters, Tipping the Velvet

“Seen on her own, the woman was not so remarkable. Tall, angular, aquiline features, with the close-cropped hair which was fashionably called an Eton crop, he seemed to remember, in his mother's day, and about her person the stamp of that particular generation. She would be in her middle sixties, he supposed, the masculine shirt with collar and tie, sports jacket, grey tweed skirt coming to mid-calf. Grey stockings and laced black shoes. He had seen the type on golf courses and at dog shows - invariably showing not sporting breeds but pugs - and if you came across them at a party in somebody's house they were quicker on the draw with a cigarette lighter than he was himself, a mere male, with pocket matches. The general belief that they kept house with a more feminine, fluffy companion was not always true. Frequently they boasted, and adored, a golfing husband. ("Don't Look Now")”
― Daphne du Maurier, Echoes from the Macabre: Selected Stories

“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.”
― E.M. Forster, Maurice

“I write from the Land of Violets, and from the Land of Spring...”
― Emily Dickinson, Open Me Carefully: Emily Dickinson's Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“He is unrivalled, like a Lesbian
Musician matched with other men.”
― Sappho, Come Close

“You will never know how to tarnish the devotion
Of my passion for the beauty of women, that my verse
acclaims”
― Renée Vivien, The Muse of the Violets: Poems

“As for those who were ashamed to declare themselves, lying low for the sake of a peaceful existence, she utterly despised such of them as had brains; they were traitors to themselves and their fellows, she insisted. For the sooner the world came to realize that fine brains very frequently went with inversion, the sooner it would have to withdraw its ban, and the sooner would cease this persecution. Persecution was always a hideous thing, breeding hideous thoughts—and such thoughts were dangerous.”
― Radclyffe Hall, The Well of Loneliness

“To own a Susan of my own
Is of itself a Bliss —
Whatever realm I forfeit, Lord,
Continue me in this!”
― Emily Dickinson