Early on in her conversation with Meghan Markle, Sophie Grégoire touched on the guilt she felt as a mom, wife, and woman in the public eye. She also noted that when it came to domestic duties, the bulk tended to land on women … and implied that she was no exception.
In response to the poem from Dr. Shefali Tsabary’s “A Radical Awakening” read out by Markle, Grégoire offered up a playful roar, before chiming that she resonated with the lioness mentioned. “The lioness is a metaphor for … everything, because, well, first of all, she does a lot of the work in the lion tribe,” she began. “Women across this planet are still the nucleus of the family. They still carry most of the load for housework, contributing to the family’s wellbeing and most decisions concerning the kids,” she went on to explain. It’s something she’d touched on, in the past, when she admitted to Le Soleil, “I have three children and a husband who is prime minister. I need help” (via The Guardian).
Adding that she believed most women could relate to that, Grégoire also pointed out that she felt many came to a point in their lives when they faced an overwhelming desire to move beyond those expectations. “We’re all that lioness. We all have that inside of us and we all long to, to be free in, in who we are,” she mused.
