The hidden pearl

"A woman who stays in her house and does household works, looks after her husband and her children, is a prisoner or an undeveloped woman who does not know life." This is a type of reasoning. According to another type of reasoning, a woman who comes down in the world of work, shackles herself and renders herself a slave.

There are restrictions and difficulties in both cases. But a woman is more free and safe inside her house. The freedom which she finds outside is slavery which is disguised as freedom. Is it not true that a precious pearl should always remain hidden?

[English version of "La perle cachée" – Al Jamiat – Vol.5 No.8]