Radclyffe Hall quotes
5 quotations, each verified against its source and credited to the work it comes from — the wording as Radclyffe Hall wrote or said it, not as the internet passes it around.
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.
Acknowledge us, oh God, before the whole world. Give us also the right to our existence!
I'm just a poor, heart-broken freak of a creature who loves you and needs you much more than its life, because life's worse than death, ten times worse without you.
And as they talked on it dawned upon Stephen that here was no mere libertine in love's garden, but rather a creature born out of her epoch, a pagan chained to an age that was Christian, one who would surely say with Pierre Louys: 'Le monde moderne succombe sous un envahissement de laideur.'
There they sat, closely herded together at the tables, creatures shabby yet tawdry, timid yet defiant—and their eyes, Stephen never forgot their eyes, those haunted, tormented eyes of the invert.
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