Stef Rozitis

“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

“It matters which stories tell stories, which concepts think concepts. Mathematically, visually, and narratively it matters which figures figure figures, which systems systematize systems”
― Donna Haraway, "Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene"

“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

“That afternoon when I forgot about my kids, I was jolted into realizing how much of my sense of self and even my sense of worth was bonded to my writing. That’s why I could so easily become engrossed in my work, even forgetting I had children while I joyously ruminated over word choices: Should it be dismayed or distraught? How about perturbed? Would discomposed sound too Victorian? Time really flies when luxuriating over the 1,300-plus pages of a Roget’s Thesaurus.”
― Judy Gruen, Bylines and Blessings: Overcoming Obstacles, Striving for Excellence, and Redefining Success