Radclyffe Hall Quotes

Normal is the average of deviance.

In a world of hunchbacks, a fine figure becomes a monstrosity.

There's a place for everything and everyone, you know. That is the mistake they make above. They think that only certain people have a place. Only certain kinds of people belong. The rest is waste. But even waste must have a place. Otherwise it will clog and clot, and rot and fester.

I was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because I find them the weirdest of all

Whenever you see people talking about how real they are or how normal they are, it seems odd to have that self awareness that you could potentially not be normal.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

Not everybody needs to be a weirdo.

People, a lot of times, don't like what's different. When it's something different out there, the majority of people will be like 'aww, that's wack!' but if it's regular, plain or a straight through flow, it's easier for them to adapt to, because everyone likes the normal.

It does not seem possible to think of oneself as normal without thinking that some other kind of person is pathological.

It's not a good idea to define the boundaries of normality by tearing apart people who are outside of it.

There are always a few people who are hyper-normal.

This hetero - normative behavior and herd mentality is dangerous. It's okay to be different.

Normal' is a dryer setting.

Normality wasn't normal. It couldn't be. If normality were normal, everybody could leave it alone. They could sit back and let normality manifest itself.

If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

Americans have mastered the art of living with the unacceptable.

I'm no less rock 'n' roll than anyone else, I'm pretty normal.

Is anyone human actually normal? I'm beginning to think being normal is actually abnormal.

Society, to be sure, does not like this very well; it saith, Whoso goes to walk alone, accuses the whole world; he declares all to be unfit to be his companions; it is very uncivil, nay, insulting; Society will retaliate.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind.

Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

I want to know why, if men rule the world, they don't stop wearing neckties.

It kills me how these days everyone has clinical justification for their strangeness.

No one was normal, not really.

The fact was, by the time she got to high school, being weird and proud of it was an asset. Suddenly cool, Blue could've happily had any number of friends. And she had tried. But the problem with being weird was that everyone else was 'normal'".