Stef Rozitis

“Hope is often misunderstood. People tend to think that it is simply passive wishful thinking: I hope something will happen but I’m not going to do anything about it. This is indeed the opposite of real hope, which requires action and engagement.”
― Jane Goodall, The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for Trying Times

“We cannot rely on one occupation to free us from another, or one tyrant to free us from another. We fought with the British against the Ottomans, and they betrayed us and promised to give our land to the Jews. Haven’t we learned our lesson? Freedom will not come to us through an external power. We have to earn it ourselves.”
― Samah Sabawi, Cactus Pear For My Beloved: A Family Story from Gaza

“toxic masculinity is also damaging the environment, perhaps beyond repair, through gendered understandings of natural resources, social roles and political hierarchies.”
― Anna Hickey-Moody, Deleuze and Masculinity

“The wine in her head promised music or poetry or truth, but she was stranded on the brink. Therese could not think of a single question that would be proper to ask, because all her questions were so enormous”
― Patricia Highsmith , Carol