ABSTRACT
“One could compare a woman in her various manifestations with a tree whose fruits cannot be gathered, separated, packaged, and sent off as if they were products for different purposes. The fruits have to be seen as the tree’s global expression in its process of blossoming and maturing; in the global beauty of the shade it provides, through the simple fact of its being there, of acting. It is something from which new blossoms and new trees are constantly sprouting … In fact, it’s the absence of pride that produces its natural greatness, which is the clear awareness that there is no need to make this kind of assertions [competing with men] in order to feel the sublime justification of being a woman and realize that one only needs to reach out as far as one’s shade …”
