Stef Rozitis

“Being a mother is the hardest thing I've ever done, but loving my child is the easiest thing I've ever done.”
― Randi Latzman, From the Heart of a Mother: Poetry and Words of Inspiration for All Stages of Motherhood

“I understand what it is to have lives under your charge. To guide them while you can. To send them out into a hostile universe, alone… after knowing you can protect them no longer.
That is, I suspect, the best that any mother can do.”
― Ryan Cady, Alien: Black, White & Blood (2024) #1

“contemporary states make live, let die, and kill”
― Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism

“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