Robyn Malcolm

I mean, I feel like actually life's kind of got, I mean, life's pretty awful for a lot of people at the moment, like really, really, really awful.

So you have to be pretty fucking grateful of where you're at, you know.

Having said all of that, I find life funnier than it used to be, just because I'm not taking it quite as seriously, and in particular not taking myself quite as seriously as I used to.

when we were shooting this menopause doco, the thing that struck me more than anything else was how behind women's health research is.

Until so recently, so much data around our health and wellbeing had just come from male data, which then makes it sort of incumbent on every woman that's going through their

this last big hormonal journey to sort of make it her fault.

The number of women who I've spoken to who just said, I thought it was me.

I just thought it was me.

I thought there was something wrong with me.

I thought there was something wrong with me.

And that's also tied up with, and I'm getting older, which is also wrong.

And I can't have kids, which is also wrong.

There's a lot of wrongness that women are having to fight through and have had to fight through for it.

for centuries.

And do you know the, you know, you have your guilty pleasures and one of mine is to go back and watch bits of the Pride and Prejudice, you know, the beautiful Colin Firth one.

Yes.

And I was watching that again the other day and it's beautiful.

Alison Steadman plays Mrs. Bennett.

And I thought, fuck, that's what they, that's how it used to be.

The middle-aged mother, you know, the mother of the heroines is a figure of fun.