Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the....

“ 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

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