Apologies / Nonpologies

Late Night Woman's Hour

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4.6 • 640 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2018

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Lauren's guests are Sali Hughes, Nadia Shireen and Caitlin Moran.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.
0:05.0	You're listening to Late Night Women's Hour, and we are at the Birmingham Literary Festival with my guest, Sally Hughes.
0:10.8	Hi.
0:11.2	Hello.
0:11.7	Catlin Moran, welcome.
0:12.7	Hello.
0:13.3	And Nadia Shireen, hello to you.
0:15.8	All right.
0:17.2	Apologising is our next subject.
0:19.9	Women are always told that we apologise too much. Do we? Or is it just
0:25.2	that perhaps male culture doesn't apologise enough? Catlin Moran apparently has thoughts on this.
0:31.0	Yes. Well, two things. When I do my events, I get a lot of women and the first thing they will always say to me is oh I'm so sorry
0:38.9	I'm so sorry I'm taking up your time and it's like no it's a signing I'm going to meet you this is
0:44.1	great thing I go oh could I get a picture taken I'm so sorry and then they will stoop to try and make
0:48.0	themselves smaller and then they'll apologize that they put on some weight and they're going to
0:51.6	look fat in the picture and I wrote a comment about this just going, no, do not apologize just for being you.
0:56.2	Take up your space.
0:57.9	Like these are brilliant.
0:58.8	The women I was meeting are always like teachers.
1:00.7	They're in social care and stuff.
1:01.8	They're busy mothers.
1:02.6	They're the people who hold up the earth.
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