Laura, during a conference on motherhood organized in Washington in 2019 for Women’s month, tells us briefly what meant to her being first a Lunàdiga and then a mother.

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LAURA: “We were very keen on having also the voice of Lunàdigas in this conference on motherhood, which we have organised here in Washington, on the occasion of Women’s Day 2019, and also for Women’s History month which is celebrated here in the USA.
The conference on Trauma… Trauma & Recovery Challenges to Motherhood in Contemporary Literature and Culture, for me, it also needed to have this voice, the voice of the Lunàdigas, therefore of those who choose not to be mothers, with all the problems that those who make this choice face in our society, especially in Italian society.
NICOLETTA: “What is your position on this? I remember you saying: “I am mother, but until then I was Lunádiga.”
LAURA: “Yes, that’s true.This is my position. I find it very interesting, I think every woman’s experience is quite different. When I was very young, I was convinced that I wanted to have a child before I turned 28.
I remember telling my boyfriend, who later became my husband, and he wasn’t really keen on it. It seemed too early to him. And later I changed my mind. I realised that women’s destiny was not only to become mothers.
I was involved in other things, I wrote my doctoral dissertation, I traveled the world.
And then I must say that our little girl, so the desire to have a child, came relatively late, after the age of 40.
My daughter was born when I was already 41.
So, I must say that I went through various frames of mind related to the issue of motherhood and non-motherhood.”

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