Nelly Quotes

“You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into...it is as much as you can expect from a poor man's daughter.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“People are beginning to realise,” the doorman of the Stonewall Inn observed a few days after the riot, “that no matter how ‘nelly’ or how ‘fem’ a homosexual is, you can only push them so far.”
― Ann Bausum, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights

“I was weeping as much for him as her; we do sometimes pity creatures that have none of the feeling either for themselves or others.”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights