All this may sound prehistoric to the girls born after the war, with all those rights we had to fight for in their cradle. But it would be a mistake for them to think that they will never be questioned. My generation knows howyrecent they are, and howfragile. That is thereason why I feel bound up with women from whatever country or colouror religion thriving to get free.

I beleive that our only chance is to share power, every form of power. As long as govvernments and Parliaments with males can make and change the laws, as long as religious authorities, be they Christian or Islamic, with males, can dictate our morals and our behaviour and decide on the world's trend, we may be granted some improvements, conditionnally... but the grand slogan of the French Revolution, LIBERTE, EGALITE, FRATERNITE, (another questionable word, fraternité!) that slogan remains, as far as we are concerned, a lure.