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Conversations with women (over 40)

'I think my sisters took a lot on the chin for me'
Talking shame, sisterhood, success, failing to fit the mould and discovering your own personal ambition threshold, with Lola Kirke
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NEW EPISODE: Molly Jong Fast on parenting your parents and losing your mother
"I didn't get a ton from my looks as a young person and I don't get a ton from my looks now so it doesn't fucking matter!"
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NEW EPISODE: Jo Hamilton – the Post Office scandal stole 20 years of my life
"We have to look after each other, because they won't. It's shameful."
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NEW EPISODE: Olia Hercules – my periods stopped the day Russia invaded Ukraine
"A gynaecologist told me I had the egg follicles of a 40-year-old woman. I was 25."
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NEW EPISODE: Melissa Febos on what she learnt from a year of celibacy
"People pleasing is people using. I think I've just been manipulating people this whole time, thinking I was being good."
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NEW EPISODE: Reeta Chakrabarti on growing older & bolder
"I don't want to still be sitting in the newsroom at 70"
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"We've turned burnout into a neat, momentary drama, but it was a slow dismantling"
Talking cognitive dissonance, finding your way back to yourself and building a whole new life after a breakdown, with Kathy Slack
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NEW EPISODE: Jeanine Cummins on confidence, identity and surviving the American Dirt controversy
"The friendships I developed during that time were forged in fire. These are women I will never be without."
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NEW EPISODE: Jennifer Weiner on Ozempic, ageing – and growing some boundaries!
"It's not our job to go quietly. It's our job to make a lot of noise and to say, this is wrong and this is doing harm."
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Clover Stroud on grief, love, sex & sisterhood
"I'm feeling a power and a strength that I find really incredible."
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Everything But The Girl's Tracey Thorn on being a woman in a bloke's world & going statement grey
"We've all had our hormones used against us."
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ARCHIVE EPISODE: Maggie O'Farrell on Hamnet, giving voice to women's stories and not being "the marrying kind"
"We know almost nothing at all about [Shakespeare's wife].. .and yet it doesn't stop historians and scholars and writers rushing forward to fill this…
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