"As a feminist, I am not gentle with women who rely on a man to make them happy. I am talking about those, illiterate or not, who take their body for a commodity to be sold and naturally do not stop powdering and dusting their body so that the commodity is presentable to the man who wants to attribute some value to it and buy it."
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Interview with Gisèle Hountondji conducted by Philippe Hado and published in Amina in November 1986
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