Elvira Banotti

In 1969 she participated as a young woman in Gianni Bisiach's program "The hour of truth", in which Indro Montanelli was interviewed, mentioning how he had bought, in 1935, a 12-year-old Abyssinian girl.

[2] In July 1970 she took part with Carla Lonzi and Carla Accardi in drafting the Manifesto di Rivolta femminile, highlighting the topics that Italian feminism would later make their own: the pride of difference against the claim of equality, the refusal of women's complementarity in any area of life, the criticism of the institution of marriage, the recognition of women's work as productive work, and not least the centrality of the body and the claim of a sexual subjectivity, free from male requests.

In 1971 she publishes the book La sfida femminile, a text that collects a large number of women's testimonies on abortion and which was slammed as "delusional" by the press, especially by the Communist Party.

[5] She was also a regular guest at the Maurizio Costanzo Show, in Giuliano Ferrara's L'istruttoria and in other TV programs, in which she attacked male sexuality, which she deemed predatory and without grace.

[5] She also fought against prostitution, which shed used to define as "the organization of social rape ... perpetrated by a state that punishes collateral crimes, but tolerates violence always suffered by women", and opposed the reopening of legal brothels, including once by knocking a basket of acorns over the head of Tinto Brass.

[8] In June 2013 she harshly attacked prosecutor Ilda Boccassini from Il Foglio for her "inquisitorial obsessions" towards Berlusconi and the "gay totalitarianism", in particular of Nichi Vendola.

I realize that I have acquired - it is the great female conquest of the last few years - a certainty, a tranquility, a knowledge of myself that allows me to no longer suffer the stimuli that come from outside, the ideological models in force, since in fact I am elsewhere."