Dacia Maraini

Overview

Dacia Maraini born Fiesole, Florence, Italy November 13, 1936. Italian author, playwright, poet; interned in Japanese concentration camp 1943-6; novel Women in War 1975.

Quotations

“Possession of weapons leads sooner or later to use them. For this it’s 'useful to the community' not to grant permission to citizens to use weapons. In countries where the permit is extended to ordinary citizens, as happens in the United States, and it’s seen these weapons are used: for private crimes, massacres of innocent people perpetrated by crazy people, or criminal assaults. . . Therefore we say that we must abolish the trade in firearms that are 'already' too extensive. Weapons do not speak, they kill. We are for dialogue.” (idiologo.org, Sept. 26, 2005; photo Wikipedia)