Leïla Slimani
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 1 Jul
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I think it's because of my education.
My mother was very, very protective and afraid of everything.
And as a young girl, you know, we were raised with the idea of danger.
My mother would say, you know, you could be raped, you can get pregnant.
Even being in love was dangerous because for my mother, if you are in love, you're not going to focus on your study and you're going to fail.
So everything was dangerous.
And I remember, that's ridiculous, but when I had to come to Paris the months before I was in Morocco and I was thinking, oh my God, I will live in this big city that I don't know.
I will have to take the subway.
How can I do to prevent attacks or people who are going to assault me?
And I was thinking, I'm going to disguise as a nun because no one could.
No, really, I was so stupid.
I was 16 or 17 years old.
And I was thinking, okay, I will find an outfit as a nun because then I will look so innocent that no one would like to do something to me.
And for many, many years, you know, I was so afraid of getting out at night.
And you know something that I thought the other day?
Sometimes I would go with a guy just because I was too afraid to go at home because I couldn't afford a taxi, a cab.
And so I would accept to spend the night with someone I didn't really like.
And that's how I thought, okay, that's why my mother told me also that financial independence is so important because just being able to pay for a cab is...
Because we are afraid.
We are afraid in the streets alone.
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