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"How can one force — I wrote — a female worker who does the triple duty of worker, housewife, and mother, not to be concerned about motherhood?"
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Camilla Ravera
Camilla Ravera was an Italian politician and the first female lifetime senator. She was also among the driving forces behind Italian feminism.
"How can one force — I wrote — a female worker who does the triple duty of worker, housewife, and mother, not to be concerned about motherhood?"
"The rice‑weeders (risaiole), for example, whom I saw the whole day with the head under the burning sun and legs in muddy water, defenseless from the bites of leeches; poorly fed; thrown at night on the common straw of the berth. And, after forty days of toil and torment, crammed into cattle wagons for the return home: with little money, malaria in the blood, and in the bottom of the soul a revolt that welled up in their sharp and bitter songs."