Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Radclyffe Hall

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Marguerite Antonia Radclyffe Hall was an English poet and author, best known for the novel The Well of Loneliness, a groundbreaking work in lesbian literature. In adulthood, Hall often went by the name John, rather than Marguerite.

English - Poet | August 12, 1880 - October 7, 1943

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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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The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.

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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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clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.

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in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.

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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.

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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.

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Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

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Life's not all beer and skittles

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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.

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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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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

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[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.

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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.

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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.

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Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Radclyffe Hall

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