"-I'll become a learned!
-Daft you are! And what would you need if you're a woman? The woman can not ever get to the wisdom of man " (G. Wisdom, The Art of Joy )
There is a larger freedom, deeper, nobler, truer than the one you want to believe the women should have. The concept of freedom does not lend itself to any "more" or "less". You're either free or at all because you're not depend on something. If you depend on money you are not free. If you depend on your beauty are not free. If you depend on a man you are not free. If you pay for a game that disgusts you're not free. If you do not know that exists only because someone made you believe that the road is not only that you are free.
"He pulled into a silk purse with a hundred guineas, and gave it to me ... Avvampai and turned pale at the sight of the bag and the audacity of his proposal together, so that I could not open his mouth, and he saw it easily. And so putting the purse in her chest, gave up all resistance and left him to do what he wanted and how many times voleva.” (D.Defoe, Moll Flanders )
Hanno scritto che Moll era libera come lo sono le donne oggi.
Era donna, era intelligente, era furba, era bellissima ma era anche disperata, povera, sola “una povera derelitta, senza amici, senza vestiti…”.
Era il 1722.
Chiamatela “occasione”, “opportunità” ma, per favore, non chiamatela Libertà.
"L'esperienza del ruolo subalterno che spettava alla donna in una società interamente gestita da uomini, mi aveva convinto di non essere tagliata per fare la moglie... Mi domandavo come uscire da quello che mi pareva un vicolo cieco. Comunicai a mia madre la decisione returning to school at any cost and to enroll in medicine. She encouraged me to discuss it with dad ... shyly asked if I could talk to him ... a career objective which was long and difficult, not suitable for a woman. I assured him that it did not worry me ... " (R. Levi Montalcini, In Praise of imperfection )
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