Florence Given
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8,560 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Florence Given’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And most of my shrinking has come from other women who taught me to be small.
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Other women who were threatened and intimidated by my zest for life when I was a child that made me feel embarrassed about that.
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that made me feel small and would put me on the fringes of friend groups and then isolate me.
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They would get me in to begin with and then isolate me.
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And I would run around thinking, what crime have I committed?
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What have I done wrong?
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Oh my God, have I hurt someone's feelings?
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And the whole time I was being isolated because I was just so fucking happy.
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And I broke down all of these sort of weird social...
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orders and rules.
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And girls are just, that's one of the things that girls do.
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Girls play power dynamics in a way that boys typically don't in school.
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I'm going to do a whole episode on this.
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I've created an entire philosophy about this called the sisterhood wound.
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I will be sharing it with you very soon.
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Okay.
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Anyway, that's a
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that tells us to be small.
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And I'm not talking about a billboard messaging.
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The messaging could be as simple as watching your mum as a young girl move out of the way for people on the pavement
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