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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You know, I think that children are very intelligent and children can adapt when you explain to them, when you respect them.
And I respect my children very much and they respect my work very much.
So we have a very good relationship where they understand my selfishness, I think.
that maybe even they forgive it.
And I want to be a mother and a good mother, but I don't want to sacrifice my career and I don't want to sacrifice my passion because this is the most important thing for me.
We were very close.
We were very close.
She was like a second mother to me.
And in Morocco, I would call her Mouima, which is in Arabic like second mother.
I would spend more time with her than with my own mother, especially when I was very young.
And at the same time, I think that at a very young age, I understood that her position was very difficult because I loved her like a mother, but she was not my mother.
Everyone was telling her, oh, you belong to the family.
But I knew that it was a lie that she was not the family.
She was with us all the time.
She was sharing our intimacy.
But at the same time, she didn't have a husband.
She didn't have children of her own because she would spend all her time taking care of us.
So she sacrificed her own life.
And when I was six or seven years old, I went to school and I could read and write.
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