Radclyffe Hall quotes
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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.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.273, Radclyffe Hall
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“Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (1956). “The well of loneliness”, Anchor
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“Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2005). “The Well of Loneliness”, p.214, Wordsworth Editions
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“[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : The Well of Loneliness ch. 37 (1928)
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“in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2015). “The Well of Loneliness: The Classic of Lesbian Fiction”, p.394, Anchor
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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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“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.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (1959). “Miss Ogilvy finds herself”
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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.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.129, Radclyffe Hall
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“clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.84, Radclyffe Hall
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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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“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.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : "A literature of our own" by Julie Bindel, www.theguardian.com. August 7, 2008.
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“Life's not all beer and skittles”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.131, Radclyffe Hall
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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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“The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Radclyffe Hall (2016). “The Well Of Loneliness”, p.140, 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”
-- Radclyffe HallSource : Title of book (1928)
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