Lilli Gruber
Dietlinde Lilli Gruber (1957) is an Italian journalist and former politician.
Currently a talk show host for Italian private television channel La7, Gruber also served as Member of the European Parliament from 2004 to September 2008 with the Olive Tree centre-left coalition.
Quotes
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- Power may well be disgusting, as men keep telling us, but in the meantime, we want it.
- Lilli alla carica "Più potere alle donne in tv", la Repubblica, 16 December 1992, p. 12
- (Speaking of propaganda during the Iraq War) Television fiction seems to be gradually replacing the reality of journalistic reporting. This is necessary to prevent public opinion from rebelling and putting pressure on governments that have already once ignored the protests of the majority of their citizens opposed to war in order to engage their country in a conflict with no way out. [...] Our leaders want us to live in the best of television worlds. Unfortunately, this paradise is the hell of democracy.
- From a broadcast by Michele Santoro. Video available on Facebook
- Never go against the flow, or you risk not reaching your goal.
- la Repubblica, 23 March 2013
- You must say “not” to the men who deny you power, profit, and pleasure.
- Il messaggio di Lilli Gruber ad Amici: “Dite 'basta' agli uomini che vi negano potere e piacere", huffingtonpost.it, 14 December 2019
- Interviewer: You have identified a “Gruber style”: blunt, even aggressive responses. Did you study your character? Lilli Gruber: I never study characters. I just try to do my job with my back straight, without professional scoliosis. I could say that when women are determined, they become annoying and castrating, but when men are determined, they become decisive and virile. I'll leave it to others to judge the “Gruber style.”
- aolo Conti, Lilli Gruber: «Fiera del successo di squadra. Mai puntate senza una donna», corriere.it, 23 June 2021
- I have great respect for journalism and journalists who do their job seriously. One of the fundamental principles of serious journalism is to distinguish information from entertainment. These two genres should not be mixed. Journalism is one thing, entertainment is another. For too many years now, we have been accustomed to seeing infotainment on TV, which has destroyed serious journalism. Be wary of those who want to sell you reality and information by entertaining you. But what does entertainment have to do with information and journalism? Nothing, absolutely nothing.
- Massimo Galanto, Non è più tempo di infotainment, la tv italiana prova a tornare all'informazione pura, tvblog.it, 22 November 2021
- Federico Bastiani, federicobastiani.org, April 2006
- I felt, and still feel, the need to describe a very complex reality that is often reduced by the media to sterile clichés. This feeling has been reinforced by developments in relations with Islam since September 11, and the Iran issue is a striking example of this. Today, rather than proclaiming axes of evil, it is more important to build axes of good.
- The European Parliament is certainly a unique observatory where you often encounter the best and sometimes the worst of politics.
- In Scandinavian countries, but also in a large and important country like Germany, there are many women at the top of parties and institutions. As always, it is first and foremost a cultural problem and then a political one, which needs legislative incentives to evolve. Therefore, gender quotas, however odious from a philosophical point of view, remain a necessity for a transition period that should be as short as possible. Italy cannot afford the luxury of giving up the great resource that women represent.
- Luca Telese, panorama.it, 27 December 2018
- In the third grade classroom, on a day I will never forget, a nun came in and told us how evil the Germans were, that they killed ten Italians for every one of their soldiers who died, and then used the fat from their corpses to make soap. [...] And in the class, suddenly silent, a classmate pointed her finger at me and exclaimed: “You're one of them too, Gruber!”
- (About South Tyrol) I am convinced that this land, seemingly small and peripheral compared to empires and republics, has been an important crossroads, both for the history of Europe and for that of our country.
- The idea of borders and integration is in my DNA. [...] Precisely because, as a child, I was always considered “different.” At home, I spoke German, and our family traditions were decidedly Austro-Hungarian. But you can be different anywhere.
- Simona Voglino Levy, rollingstone.it, 6 July 2019
- The commentators represent different points of view, but they share the ability to offer original and non-trivial thinking. I find them well suited to an in-depth program.
- In all democracies, starting with the American one, if someone lies about their private life, what kind of politician can they ever be?
- Europe needs to be “fixed,” but not destroyed. For a thousand reasons, not least because it guarantees peace and democracy, two things that we, with our short memories, too often take for granted. The latest poll tells us that 8 out of 10 young Italians feel like European citizens. And that reassures me.
- Danda Santini, iodonna.it, 26 Ocotber 2019
- It is no longer tolerable that so many important countries in the world, from the US to Brazil, are in the hands of an international group of misogynistic rednecks who harm not only women, but everyone.
- The battle for women's empowerment goes hand in hand with the battle for the survival of the planet.
- The three male “Vs”—vulgarity, violence, and visibility, the result of impotent and aggressive masculinity—must be replaced by empathy, diplomacy, and patience. Men must be re-educated. We have read many books about women who love too much or work too hard. Well, it's time for men who love too little or work too little to go back to school. Let them learn to be more feminine.
- Girls need to know that professional life is not a game of seduction. Would I dress sexy if I had a female boss?
- I was seen as sour or aggressive, whereas if I had been a man, they would have said I was determined.
- I am appalled by rude and sexist politicians like Salvini who campaign in their underwear or Trump who say things like “you grab women by the p***y.” How can anyone think of entrusting the country to a man who has said such a thing? At the very least, he will mistreat women and citizens.
- I still remember a press conference in Amman with King Hussein of Jordan during the first Gulf War. I wanted to ask the king why he had grown a beard, but I was afraid it was a stupid question and didn't raise my hand. A colleague asked the question shortly afterwards and the king smiled and replied that it was to mask irritation caused by the stress of war. I was ashamed of my self-sabotage.
- We women must love Europe because it is the first and, for now, the only successful example of peaceful coexistence between nations to build a project of well-being and defense of fundamental values such as social and women's rights.
- In Italy, there is also a sense of impunity: if you are a man, and especially a man in power, you are untouchable. Women do not have the courage to report abuse, or are often harsher on other women, and men are mostly complicit. We have wasted decades on useless debates, such as the one on quotas. You have to start with facts and figures: where women have been included, there has been a rebalancing and companies have improved. Often, the self-harming behavior of those who do not want to be judged as a panda category comes into play. But whether you like it or not, we are judged and treated differently from men.
- I am attacked every day on social media with intolerable sexism and vulgarity. This is also because the degradation of language becomes physical brutality and real violence. It is serious that there is no punishment: verbal violence—even anonymous violence, which is even more cowardly—must be punished immediately, and we have all the tools to do so.
- The incompetence of men in power is causing too much damage. We must no longer apologize for existing. We are more talented and more competent, and we demand power.
See also
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- Lilli Gruber, Basta! Il potere delle donne contro la politica del testosterone, Collana I Solferini, Milano, Solferino, 2019. ISBN 978-88-282-0311-7
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