Quotes
"An atmosphere of unrelenting honesty is not hospitable, really, to domestic life. It is exhausting, since it bars the possibility of tactfulness or diplomacy." The Family Heart by Robb Forman Dew
"She had lost for the moment all sense of proportion, of perspective, seeing in a vain, tactless woman a kind of gigantic destroying angel; a kind of scourge laid upon her and Mary." The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
"Loneliness, or worse still, far worse because it so deeply degraded the spirit, a life of perpetual subterfuge, of guarded opinions and guarded actions, of lies of omission if not of speech, of becoming an accomplice in the world's injustice by maintaining at all times a judicious silence, making and keeping the friends one respected, on false pretenses, because if they knew would turn aside, even the friends one respected." The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
"Thus the whirligig of war brings in its abrupt revenges." The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
"But, as it happened, I had never seen a naked woman in the flesh and at such close quarters It was-I repeat- horrible. I found that her whole body was of the same unnatural whiteness as her neck, face and hands. A pair of white breasts dangled in front. At first I took them for secondary arms, amputated above the elbow. But each of them terminated in a round nipple like a push-button. Further on, and right down to her legs, the whole available space was occupied by a spherical belly. That is where the food swallowed in the course of a day collects in a heap. Its lower half was over-grown with curly hair like a little head."
Andrei Sinyavsky "Pkhentz"
"There is no loyalty like the loyalty of the scorned."
Stacey Richter "Christ Their Lord"
"She had lost for the moment all sense of proportion, of perspective, seeing in a vain, tactless woman a kind of gigantic destroying angel; a kind of scourge laid upon her and Mary." The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
"Loneliness, or worse still, far worse because it so deeply degraded the spirit, a life of perpetual subterfuge, of guarded opinions and guarded actions, of lies of omission if not of speech, of becoming an accomplice in the world's injustice by maintaining at all times a judicious silence, making and keeping the friends one respected, on false pretenses, because if they knew would turn aside, even the friends one respected." The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
"Thus the whirligig of war brings in its abrupt revenges." The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall
"But, as it happened, I had never seen a naked woman in the flesh and at such close quarters It was-I repeat- horrible. I found that her whole body was of the same unnatural whiteness as her neck, face and hands. A pair of white breasts dangled in front. At first I took them for secondary arms, amputated above the elbow. But each of them terminated in a round nipple like a push-button. Further on, and right down to her legs, the whole available space was occupied by a spherical belly. That is where the food swallowed in the course of a day collects in a heap. Its lower half was over-grown with curly hair like a little head."
Andrei Sinyavsky "Pkhentz"
"There is no loyalty like the loyalty of the scorned."
Stacey Richter "Christ Their Lord"