Women and girls were expected, by and large, to stay in the background. Now, you today have a very powerful, unique, creative voice. You use it loudly. How difficult was it to find that voice, to make that move away . Now, i should say, i do come from a traditional observant background. However, my father is a professor of history. So from that perspective, i came from an intellectually very open culture, even whilst, yes, i have been to a talk as a young woman on the subject, the beauty of a woman is in her silence. So, yes. And you were brought up in a religion and you talk about it quite openly in stuff youve written about your past, where at school, every morning, everybody said, thank you, god, for not making me a slave. And then the boys said, thank you, god, for not making me a woman. Yes. And the girls say, thank you, god, for making me according to your will. Yes, its, in some ways, quite a misogynist religion. I think that is a very misogynist type of prayer. I think i became
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