Parfois j’ai le sentiment que le bon Dieu a mis les femmes sur cette terre pour rappeler aux hommes l’heure des cocktails.

Theophile Gautier, Mademoiselle de Maupin 

...I was looking for a specific quote about the queerness in Maupin and I found this different quote about the queerness in Maupin, because that entire book is really intensely queer  

(context:  this is the male lead character, d’Albert, in a letter talking about his love for Maupin, who he thinks at this point is a man named Theodore, and the letter swings wildly between insisting that Theodore is a man and that’s the only way this makes sense, d’Albert’s Panic about the idea that he might love a man , long Romantic pinings after Beauty As An Ideal Regardless of Gender, aaand stuff like this :

“What I feel towards this young man is truly incredible; no woman has ever troubled me so singularly.”