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Hello my lovely bed twixsters, it's me Kate Lister.

I am here with your fair dues warning.

Fair dues, this is a podcast of an adult nature that talks about adult things in an adulty way

with two adults talking to one another in an adult like way to you who should be an adult.

And if you're not an adult, if you stayed up late to try and sneak a listen to the twix the sheets

naughty naughty naughty, turn it off right back now and go and watch the wumbles.

And as for anybody else who's still here, I am ready if you are, let's do this.

I am a woman who writes.

I write books, I write articles, I write rude things on the inside stalls of toilets.

That's not true, that's just the books and the articles.

But being a woman who writes is a luxury that is relatively recent in our history.

If you go back just a hundred years, it was a lot less common for women to be writing.

And if you go back a hundred before that, it's getting really unlikely that a woman would be

able to make it as a writer. And I know what you're thinking, Jane Austen, George Elliott,

and we can all pull names out of the bag, but the simple truth is these were the exception

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