Radclyffe Hall

Havelock Ellis

Morris Leopold Ernst

The Well of Loneliness

Claire E

And always these people must carry that lie like a poisonous asp pressed against their bosoms; must unworthily hide and deny their love, which might well be the finest thing about them.

Then, Stephen knew that unless she could, indeed, drop dead at the feet of this woman, in whose womb she had quickened, there was one thing she dared not let pass unchallenged, and that was this terrible slur upon her love. And all that was in her rose up to refute it; to protect her love for such unbearable soiling. It was part of herself, and unless she could save it, she could not save herself anymore. She must stand or fall by the courage of that love and to proclaim its right to toleration.

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