My queerness is not a vice, is not deliberate, and harms no one.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?

- Natalie Clifford Barney

Our shadows are taller than ourselves.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

It is time for dead languages to keep quiet.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether…

- Natalie Clifford Barney

I'm fond of human beings, but only one at a time.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

- Natalie Clifford Barney

Might I be the one I am looking for?

- Natalie Clifford Barney

Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners.

- Natalie Clifford Barney