8 March, mimosas and rose sentinels at the Quirinale, Casellati quotes Grazia Deledda to celebrate Ukrainian women

A triumph of mimosas adorns the entrance to the Quirinale this morning, where the International Women’s Day will be celebrated at 11.00 in the presence of the head of state, Sergio Mattarella. This morning, as happens every year, the female changing of the guard also took place, with the women of the army who will be sentinel to the palace throughout the ceremony. Meanwhile, on Women’s Day “a special thought goes to all Ukrainian women who are facing moments of great pain with great courage.” This was stated by the president of the Senate, Elisabetta Casellati, in a video message at the conference «They didn’t kill you with a pin. Grazia Deledda in the intimate secret of the great dream ». Grazia Deledda – she adds – «she has always been considered an extraordinary symbol of redemption, modernity and progress. An example for entire generations of women. An exhortation to become aware of one’s potential to never lower one’s head, not even in the face of apparently insurmountable obstacles ». Therefore, remembering the figure of the Nobel Prize winner, she underlines, “is certainly an opportunity. An opportunity to renew awareness of how the path of women’s emancipation continues to be an unfinished book with many pages still to be written “because, she says,” there are too many discriminations, barriers and prejudices with which, even in our country , many women have to continually confront each other in every area of ​​their life: from family, to school, to society, to work. Too many are the physical, moral or even verbal violence of which more and more women are victims only as women and often in a context of indifference or misunderstanding just as guilty. Too many are the trampled dignities, the prevarications and the forms of modern slavery which, in many regions of the world, still afflict millions of women ».