Leïla Slimani
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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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And thanks to Simone de Beauvoir, I was feeling stronger and I was feeling that I would always have an answer against those who claim that it's because of God, because of nature.
So I read it really with passion.
And, you know, I remember that when I went to borrow the book in a library, I
And I thought that it was an erotic book because the name, Le Deuxième Sex, The Second Sex, I thought it was erotic.
So I arrived and I was, you know, red, red, red and sweating.
And I asked for The Second Sex and she gave it to me.
And I came back home and I began to read.
And at the beginning, I was very disappointed.
I was like, oh, my God, I thought it was like an erotic story.
And...
And then I continued, and I have to say that it's even better than an erotic story because it gives you the opportunity to be the master of your own erotism.
You know, some historical examples, the fact for instance, there's a long chapter about biology.
And she argues against those who say that the women are physiologically unequal and weaker to men.
The truth is that it's absolutely impossible to prove.
And so you have a lot of arguments in that term.
She also explains why religion manipulated also this idea of women being unequal and that women should stay home and should make children and should perpetuate the generation and all this.
So you have answers for all types of attacks.
Yes, but to be really honest, I think that I was very naive.
And when I had my son, I was absolutely not aware of how much time and how much sacrifice and all the things that being a mother demands.
But it's also something I wrote about a lot, the fact that...
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