Leïla Slimani
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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And the idea of being in a city of visibility, where you don't feel ashamed all the time.
There is not this concept of that we have in Moroccan culture.
And so I had to adapt, but it was very difficult also because being free is difficult.
Yeah.
And it comes with a lot of loneliness and a lot of, yeah, a lot of failures.
And sometimes you get manipulated by people and sometimes, you know, some people they can...
smell that you're alone and that you're free and that you don't know where are the boundaries so they will try to instrumentalize this freedom to make you do things you don't want to do but um i have no i have no regret i think that um
I think that freedom comes with that also and that you have to learn, you have to fail and fail again and fail better all the time.
Yeah, and you know, I have a lot of young writers coming to me and saying, you know, I'm afraid, I want to write, and I want to write about my life and about my parents, and I know it's going to be difficult.
And I'm like, yeah, I'm not going to lie to you.
It's going to be difficult.
And being free, being a free writer and being a free woman...
I hate the idea of going in front of an audience and say, oh, you know, I'm a free woman and it's so wonderful and look at me.
No, it's difficult.
It's very difficult.
And you have to make also a lot of sacrifice, but it's worth it.
And that's what I say to those women.
It's difficult.
Some people are not going to like you.
Some people in your family are not going to understand you.
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