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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Why in a family...
You have one person sometimes who is a rebel, someone who doesn't accept the norms, who doesn't accept the rules.
And I was this kind of young girl.
And when I was maybe seven or eight years old, I had a fight with my father.
I did something and he yelled at me and I answered him.
And he said, you don't answer your father.
And I said, it's my mouth.
And I say, whatever I want.
In French, I said, c'est ma bouche.
And then it was my nickname for a very long time.
My father used to call me c'est ma bouche because I was always speaking out.
And it was impossible for me to shut up or to silent when I was feeling something or when I was really, I had a very strong feeling of injustice.
And it was something that really destroyed me.
And that's how I think I began to write because I was always telling my grandmother, it's so unfair, it's so unfair.
And one day she said, you know, yeah, it's unfair and life is unfair and you will see and you will understand.
So maybe write about this and maybe you can resolve or you can try to correct this injustice through writing.
Since colonization, actually, it's a law that was written by the French when they arrived in Morocco.
Their idea was also to prevent any kind of sexuality between Arabs and French and Europeans.
So there was really the desire to...
separate, to segregate the two population.
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