Despised and Rejected Quotes

“Isn't this worth fighting for?"
Dennis smiled as he answered the question: "It's worth more than that; it's worth—not fighting for!”
― Rose Allatini, Despised and Rejected

“but I maintain that anything that puts itself outside the general rule and diverges too widely from the ordinary type, is an undesirable element, and should be barred out."
"That means that you'd bar out genius too, and lots of other fine qualities that only exist in the brains of people who are exceptions to the rule”
― Rose Allatini, Despised and Rejected

“We want more light, more breathing-space, more tolerance and understanding: not this narrow-minded wholesale condemnation and covering-up; this instinctive shuddering and turning away from a side of nature that, like every other side, has its right to a hearing, its right to open discussion.”
― Rose Allatini, Despised and Rejected

“There's such a lot to be done 'some day', isn't there?”
― Rose Allatini, Despised and Rejected

“Being in the minority doesn't imply being in the wrong.”
― Rose Allatini, Despised and Rejected

“They don't know the ghastliness of having to pretend to be as normal as they, and all the while to be stifling and suppressing the most vital side of yourself - the love-side.”
― Rose Allatini, Despised and Rejected