I was very restless, but finally I found my way.

Women movements would form among the factory workers, a great mobilisation that destroyed the old models.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

A woman must combine the role of mother, wife and politician.

Women are clear-headed, they are more creative and for this reason, sometimes, also more fragile.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

I was thrown into the Parliament right away. From 1976 to 1978 I was concerned with the abortion issue, later on with that of divorce.