"In Italy, a man kills a woman - a partner, daughter, lover, sister or "ex" - on average once every two or three days, and probably at home because the family isn't always and necessarily that magical place in which all is love. He kills her because he considers her his property, because he cannot imagine that a woman might belong to herself, to be free to live as she wants and even fall in love with another man. And we women, because we are so ingenuous, often mistake all sorts of things for love.But love has damn all to do with violence and blows...A man who beats us up does not love us. Let us get that into our heads. Let us save it into our hard disks...A man who beats us up is shit. Always.And we must understand that straightaway, at the first slap, because then the second will come along, and then a third and a fourth. Love creates happiness and swells the heart. It does not break ribs and it does not leave bruises on the face."Italian feminist Luciana Littizzetto @ the 2013 Sanremo music festival. From the book of "Economist" magazine Italy-based journalist, John Hooper ( 2015:151).
