Anne Lister Quotes

#1. Monday 29 January 1821 [Halifax]
I love and only love the fairer sex and thus beloved by them in turn, my heart revolts from any love but theirs.

Anne Lister

#2. But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS].

Elton John

#3. Storytelling not only makes us human; it creates vulnerability.

Herbert Anderson

#4. I swallowed hard. It was my life. And it was my choice how I decided to live it.

Heather Brewer

#5. Saturday 12 July 1823 [Halifax]
Could not sleep last night. Dozing, hot & disturbed ... a violent longing for a female companion came over me. Never remember feeling it so painfully before ... It was absolute pain to me.

Anne Lister

#6. An angel can illume the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision.

Thomas Aquinas

#7. Limit love and you limit life.

Vera Stanley Alder

#8. There is no relation to sound for deaf people. It is a totally different mental process.

Richard Masur

#9. Sometimes pain can bring about clarity and remind us we're still breathing.

Shane Kuhn