" Francesca Cernia Slovin was born on March 14, 1952 in Terni, Italy, to the late Elena and Enrico Cernia. She was an older sister to the late Paola and Michele, whose memories she carried tightly. Francesca earned a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Rome and explored a wide range of subjects through her passionate writing and teaching, most notably on the lives of Aby Warburg and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Israeli history, and radical politics. "

" The passions of maternity are so sudden, intense and confusing that we ourselves often remain ignorant of this perspective, the thought that has developed from our mothering. "