Best quotes by Maimouna Doucoure on Women

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• ‟ I want to say to this guy and everyone who thinks that femininity means you don't have the power to think, to write, lead and create, women are capable of doing everything.

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• ‟ We're used to saying that women in other cultures are oppressed, but the question that I had when making the film was: Isn't the objectification of a woman's body that we often see in Western culture another kind of oppression?

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• ‟ What happens is young girls see images of women being objectified, and the more the woman becomes an object the more followers and likes she has - they see that as a role model and try to imitate these women, but they're not old enough to know what they're doing.

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• ‟ When I was young, I also saw a lot of injustices around me lived by women.

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• ‟ When I was 10 and 11, my dream was to be a boy. I saw that there were so many injustices that women had to live with around me. I didn't want to have that; I wanted to have the freedom that little boys had.

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• ‟ I really wanted to show the suffering of women and particularly of children because, for me, we often forget to think about them and speak to them.

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