Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite Quotes

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite

You are to be pitied more than I, perhaps. I soar above all your innumerable miseries, partaking of the nature of the angels; for, as you have said, my place is not in your narrow sphere. You have the earth, I have boundless space. Enchained here bel...

Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite