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“Some men do not know the father of 'their' children.”

“…the male desire to control women’s sexual activity can be traced to efforts to ensure paternity. This impulse lurks behind even the most extreme or bizarre expressions of religious obsession, misogyny, and sexual repression.”

“We don't live our lives alone, but that doesn't mean we see those alongside whom we live our lives. When Dad moved to Northern Norway and was no longer physically in front of me with his body and his voice, his temper and his eyes, in a way he disappeared from my life, in the sense that he was reduced to a kind of discomfort I occasionally felt when he called or when something reminded me of him, then a kind of zone within me was activated, and in that zone lay all my feelings for him, but he was not there. Later, in his notebooks, I read about the Christmas when he called from the Canary Islands and the weeks that followed. Here he stands before me as he was, in midlife, and perhaps that is why reading them is so painful for me, he wasn't only much more than my feelings for him but infinitely more, a complete and living person in the midst of his life.”

“«La paternità, a meno che uno non sia un folle o un mentecatto, risveglia ciò che di più terribile alberga nell’uomo: il senso di responsabilità! Io sento che dovrò rimettere a mio figlio il mandato perenne dell’umanità. A meditare sul mistero della paternità c’è da diventare pazzi. E se la maggior parte dei padri non diventano pazzi è solo perché sono stupidi… oppure perché non sono padri. Rallegrati, quindi, Augusto, perché forse questa fuga ti ha risparmiato la fatica di essere padre. E io ti ho detto sempre di sposarti, ma non di diventare padre. Il matrimonio è un esperimento… psicologico; la paternità, invece, è un esperimento… patologico».”