Leïla Slimani
speaker
494 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
Leïla Slimani’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were illiterate?
Yeah.
And the second thing was when I was a little bit older, when I was a teenager, I began to understand first that I didn't have exactly the same right as men because when I wanted to do something, very often people would answer to me, no, it's not for women, it's for men.
You want to go in a cafe and sit on the terrace?
No, it's not for women.
If you wear a certain skirt, if you smoke outside, if you dress in a certain way or put makeup, people will immediately judge you and say, oh, no, that behavior, it's the behavior of a whore.
So just having a body of a woman was giving at that time the...
I don't know, the opportunity for other people to judge you.
And I was very frustrated about that.
And then also I witnessed a lot of injustice.
Friends of my mother, who would be repudiated by their husband, who would lose the custody of their children.
The situation was very violent.
I remember that my mother telling me, OK, if you go in front of a judge and you need someone for a testimony, a woman would only value the half of a man.
If you need two people to testify, you need two men or four women.
So I was really outraged by that.
That's me.
I was only half of a man.
No, I always spoke out.
And my parents were always very, very afraid that something would happen to me.
But, you know, it's something that I always found very mysterious and something I like to write about, the mystery of freedom.
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