“Our men are under attack in a huge way. So they drink or take drugs
to sort of hold their soul together I guess. And a lot of times it’s
destroying it. Then they come home and who’s the most vulnerable person
at home? Your wife and your children.”
Morton-Thomas points to
the role of men in her life, particularly in the older generation, who
have grounded and shaped her. “You can’t have a full woman without a
positive male influence there, a nurturing male influence,” she says.
“Otherwise you’re only half a person. You have to have the yin and the
yang.
An image from An Undeniable Right, a photographic exhibition soon to open at the United Nations in Geneva.
Photograph: Wayne Quilliam
