Leïla Slimani
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Aug
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I remember as a child, she could stay very, very late to take care of people, and every night she would come back and tell us, tell us about
about people, tell us about poverty, about injustice, and tell us also about the body.
physicality.
And I think that's why body is so important in my work.
Because at very young age I understood that of course we are made of our mind, our our voice, our values and all this and our social class.
But f first and at the end we are just a body that is going to suffer and that is going to die.
What did she teach you about women's equality?
Um my mother sh first of all she told us at a very young age because I have two sisters, the first thing that she said and that she repeated years after years after years was that you have to be independent financially, never depend on a man.
So you have to study, study, study, and you have to find a job and make your own money and never have as a job.
dream to marry someone who is rich and who is going to take care of you.
And the second thing is uh knowledge.
My mother always said the first weapon of a woman is knowledge.
The more book you read, the freer you are.
Oh horrible things.
But even in my home, the first uh inequality that was absolutely horrible and uh I I suppose it has a
A link with the my job is the the inequality of reading and writing.
Uh you know, a lot of women around me when I was young they couldn't read or write and they i in a way I had the feeling when I was six, seven years old and I was beginning to write my name and to read books and I would see my grandmother and I would see my nanny and w women around me.
who were in the dark and it was difficult for them to understand their rights, it was difficult for them to travel.
So the first inequality was
Yeah.
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