Veronica Martinez

“It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
It is our duty to win.
We must love each other and support each other.
We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
― Assata Shakur, Assata: An Autobiography

“I’m gonna be with whoever I want to. Whoever makes me feel good. I’m not going to let some stupid, like, societal need to categorize tell me that that feeling’s wrong, no matter who’s making me feel it.”
― Hannah Johnson (Know not Why)

“Hombres necios que acusáis a la mujer sin razón,
Sin ver que sois la ocasión de lo mismo que culpáis:”
― Juana Inés de la Cruz

“Howie?” Arthur says.

“What?”

“Why do you want me to freak out?” He asks it sort of gently, which makes it worse somehow.

“Because you make me freak out all the time.” Maybe I’m not so totally chill, but whatever, whatever, I’m sick of it. “Like, honestly, I’m pretty sure I’ve started doing it professionally. Maybe you should start considering paying me extra. ‘Cause seriously, dude, when it comes to freaking out about you, I am the master. I am friggin’ incomparable, I got mad skills all over the place. And I don’t think this is exactly mutual freaking out, like, I don’t get the sense that I make you want to wither and die and explode. And that’s okay. That’s cool. I’m kind of going through a thing here that you probably went through a long time ago, unless you didn’t go through it at all because you’re just all together, like, you popped out of the womb, all, ‘Thanks for squeezing me out, Mom; no more pussy for me.”
― Hannah Johnson, Know Not Why