Mara

“Marcie, you don’t need to read books. It’s just a bad habit for introverts.” Marcie shook her head silently while Laura went on. “Beautiful girls like you don’t need to read,” she said.”
― Ann Bannon, I am a Woman

“It’s not like anyone’s ever actually questioned me being here, at least not to my face, and I know everyone means well, but almost no one in this town knows what it’s like for people to see you as different the second anyone looks at you.”
― Katia Rose, Turning Back

“The real question is why it matters to people. Do we really need proof, like in our genes, or our brains, or anything else, to be who we are? Why do we need certification of it, or whatever? The only person who can tell you who you are is you.”
― Jennifer Finney Boylan, Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us

“The fact that London would always be surrounded by people who either didn’t approve of their identity or didn’t understand their identity was not a fact that could simply be ignored. London could push it away in order to exist. But it was always lurking in the shadows, making London on guard for how they should act, what they should say in front of other human beings.”
― Anita Kelly, Love & Other Disasters