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style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Hounslow" title="Hounslow">Hounslow</a>, London</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_College,_Oxford" title="Lincoln College, Oxford">Lincoln College, Oxford</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation(s)</th><td class="infobox-data role"><a href="/wiki/Journalist" title="Journalist">Journalist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Columnist" title="Columnist">columnist</a>, author</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employer</th><td class="infobox-data org"><i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Zoe Abigail Williams<sup id="cite_ref-find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></b> (born 7 August 1973)<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> is a Welsh<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> columnist, journalist, and author. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Zoe Abigail Williams was born on 7 August 1973 in <a href="/wiki/Hounslow" title="Hounslow">Hounslow</a>, London. Williams was educated at the independent <a href="/wiki/Godolphin_and_Latymer_School" title="Godolphin and Latymer School">Godolphin and Latymer School</a> for girls in London and read modern history at <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_College,_Oxford" title="Lincoln College, Oxford">Lincoln College, Oxford</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her father, Mark Williams, was a <a href="/wiki/Forensic_psychology" title="Forensic psychology">forensic psychologist</a>;<sup id="cite_ref-theguardian.com_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theguardian.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> he worked at <a href="/wiki/Wandsworth_Prison" class="mw-redirect" title="Wandsworth Prison">Wandsworth Prison</a> in London.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her mother was a set designer for the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability"><span title="The material near this tag failed verification of its source citation(s). 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Williams said her father was a petty criminal because he committed insurance fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-theguardian.com_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theguardian.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Writing">Writing</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Writing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Williams is a lifestyle, wellness and political journalist for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, with her Fitness in your 40s, family and political columns. Her work has also appeared in other publications, including the <i><a href="/wiki/New_Statesman" title="New Statesman">New Statesman</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Spectator" title="The Spectator">The Spectator</a></i>, <i>Now</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/London_Cycling_Campaign" title="London Cycling Campaign">London Cycling Campaign's</a> magazine <i>London Cyclist</i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Times_Literary_Supplement" title="The Times Literary Supplement">The Times Literary Supplement</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She is also a columnist for the London <i><a href="/wiki/Evening_Standard" title="Evening Standard">Evening Standard</a></i>, for which she was a diarist writing about being a single woman in London. She reviewed restaurants for <i><a href="/wiki/The_Sunday_Telegraph" title="The Sunday Telegraph">The Sunday Telegraph</a></i> magazine.<sup id="cite_ref-gold_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gold-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2011, Williams wrote about <a href="/wiki/Fare_dodging" class="mw-redirect" title="Fare dodging">fare dodging</a> when in her 30s while travelling on <a href="/wiki/London_buses" class="mw-redirect" title="London buses">London buses</a>. She wrote: "I actually had a lot of affection for <a href="/wiki/Bendy_buses" class="mw-redirect" title="Bendy buses">bendy buses</a>, mainly because evading your fare was so easy that to pay was almost missing the point. We used to call it freebussing."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political">Political</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2014, Williams defended the social policy legacy of former <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> prime minister <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Tony Blair</a> and denounced those <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair#Accusations_of_war_crimes" title="Tony Blair">calling him a war criminal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guardian-20140408_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian-20140408-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following the death of <a href="/wiki/Fidel_Castro" title="Fidel Castro">Fidel Castro</a>, Williams condemned his rule in Cuba, while imploring her readers to ignore his policies.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In August 2015, Williams endorsed <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Corbyn" title="Jeremy Corbyn">Jeremy Corbyn</a>'s <a href="/wiki/2015_Jeremy_Corbyn_Labour_Party_leadership_campaign" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Jeremy Corbyn Labour Party leadership campaign">campaign</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2015_Labour_Party_(UK)_leadership_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Labour Party (UK) leadership election">Labour Party leadership election</a>. She wrote in <i>The Guardian</i>: "The point is, Corbyn doesn't have to be right about everything; he doesn't have to be certain, and fully costed about everything; he doesn't even have to be responsive and listening to everything. This political moment is about breaking open the doors and letting the 21st century in."<sup id="cite_ref-theguardian_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-theguardian-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Feminism">Feminism</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Feminism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Williams writes about her personal life from a feminist perspective, such as her marriages,<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> motherhood, and her abortion.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She wrote <i>Bring It On, Baby: How to have a dudelike pregnancy</i>, a 2010 book of advice for mothers-to-be, which was republished in 2012 as <i>What Not to Expect When You're Expecting</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-gold_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-gold-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Awards">Awards</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Williams was longlisted for the <a href="/wiki/Orwell_Prize" title="Orwell Prize">Orwell Prize</a> in 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and was named Columnist of the Year 2010 at the WorkWorld Media Awards.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Broadcasting">Broadcasting</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Broadcasting"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Williams has appeared as a guest on television. <a href="/wiki/Clive_James" title="Clive James">Clive James</a> praised her appearance in documentary <i>Teenage Kicks: the Search for Sophistication</i>: "The brilliant journalist Zoe Williams did a short piece to camera that was almost an aria."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She has presented a radio documentary, <i>Inside the Academy School Revolution</i>, which <a href="/wiki/Miranda_Sawyer" title="Miranda Sawyer">Miranda Sawyer</a> found one-sided and "tame",<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and hosted BBC Radio 4's <i><a href="/wiki/What_The_Papers_Say" class="mw-redirect" title="What The Papers Say">What The Papers Say</a></i>. She has been a panellist on the BBC's <i><a href="/wiki/Question_Time_(TV_programme)" title="Question Time (TV programme)">Any Questions</a></i><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/Question_Time" class="mw-redirect" title="Question Time">Question Time</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1251242444">.mw-parser-output .ambox{border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-left:10px solid #36c;background-color:#fbfbfb;box-sizing:border-box}.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+link+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+style+.ambox,.mw-parser-output .ambox+.mw-empty-elt+link+link+.ambox{margin-top:-1px}html body.mediawiki .mw-parser-output .ambox.mbox-small-left{margin:4px 1em 4px 0;overflow:hidden;width:238px;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em}.mw-parser-output .ambox-speedy{border-left:10px solid #b32424;background-color:#fee7e6}.mw-parser-output .ambox-delete{border-left:10px solid #b32424}.mw-parser-output .ambox-content{border-left:10px solid #f28500}.mw-parser-output .ambox-style{border-left:10px solid #fc3}.mw-parser-output .ambox-move{border-left:10px solid #9932cc}.mw-parser-output .ambox-protection{border-left:10px solid #a2a9b1}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-text{border:none;padding:0.25em 0.5em;width:100%}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image{border:none;padding:2px 0 2px 0.5em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-imageright{border:none;padding:2px 0.5em 2px 0;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-empty-cell{border:none;padding:0;width:1px}.mw-parser-output .ambox .mbox-image-div{width:52px}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .ambox{margin:0 10%}}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .ambox{display:none!important}}</style><table class="box-Criticism_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-criticism" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span class="skin-invert-image" typeof="mw:File"><span><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/45px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png" decoding="async" width="45" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/68px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fe/Unbalanced_scales.svg/90px-Unbalanced_scales.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="400" data-file-height="354" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This article's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Criticism#Avoid_sections_and_articles_focusing_on_criticisms_or_controversies" title="Wikipedia:Criticism">"criticism" or "controversy" section</a> <b>may compromise the article's <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view#Article_structure" title="Wikipedia:Neutral point of view">neutrality</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help rewrite or integrate negative information to other sections <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus" title="Wikipedia:Consensus">through discussion</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Talk:Zoe_Williams" title="Talk:Zoe Williams">talk page</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">September 2022</span>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>In February 2020, Williams was criticised online and in <a href="/wiki/Nation.Cymru" title="Nation.Cymru">Nation.Cymru</a> for her comments about the Welsh language. Her article on exercise criticised a particular Canadian fitness regime as "hard and existentially pointless", continuing: "all that energy spent, no distance covered: it's like eating cottage cheese or learning Welsh."<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Williams had previously praised the language on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a> for giving Welsh speakers "a more international outlook".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, <i><a href="/wiki/Kent_Live" class="mw-redirect" title="Kent Live">Kent Live</a></i> reported criticism of Williams following an altercation that resulted in Williams being told to leave a <a href="/wiki/Wetherspoons" title="Wetherspoons">Wetherspoons</a> pub in <a href="/wiki/Ramsgate" title="Ramsgate">Ramsgate</a>, on the basis that she had broken the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_lockdown_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 lockdown in the United Kingdom">COVID-19 lockdown</a> rules then in force.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Williams had written about the incident in <i>The Guardian</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zoe_Williams&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Williams lives in <a href="/wiki/South_London" title="South London">South London</a> with her second husband, Will Higham, and his daughter from another marriage, as well as her son, Thurston,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and daughter, Harper,<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who were fathered by her first husband before she married him.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_Media_Group_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_Media_Group-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Williams married the father, a geologist,<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of her son and daughter<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in 2013, after ten years together, and wrote about the wedding from a feminist perspective in her column for <i>The Guardian</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2018, after a divorce, Williams married for the second time.<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_Media_Group_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian_Media_Group-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Williams became a trustee of the Butler Trust<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>—which was established to recognise the achievements of prison service staff—in November 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She is a patron of <a href="/wiki/Humanists_UK" title="Humanists UK">Humanists UK</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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My Wetherspoon's run-in says otherwise"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Think+the+coronavirus+rules+aren%27t+being+enforced%3F+My+Wetherspoon%27s+run-in+says+otherwise&rft.date=2020-11-01&rft.aulast=Williams&rft.aufirst=Zoe&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2020%2Fnov%2F01%2Fthink-the-coronavirus-rules-arent-being-enforced-my-wetherspoons-run-in-says-otherwise&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZoe+Williams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-34"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-34">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/apr/08/familyandrelationships.society">"Guardian staff test out the US trend of bringing baby to work"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 8 April 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Guardian+staff+test+out+the+US+trend+of+bringing+baby+to+work&rft.date=2008-04-08&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2008%2Fapr%2F08%2Ffamilyandrelationships.society&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZoe+Williams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/oct/09/anti-natal-second-child-caesarean">"Caesareans are not the posh option"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 8 October 2009.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Caesareans+are+not+the+posh+option&rft.date=2009-10-08&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2009%2Foct%2F09%2Fanti-natal-second-child-caesarean&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZoe+Williams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Guardian_Media_Group-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian_Media_Group_36-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Guardian_Media_Group_36-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/may/05/i-do-again-there-is-nothing-as-deadly-serious-as-a-second-marriage">"I do, again: 'There is nothing as deadly serious as a second marriage'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 5 May 2018<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Live+chat+on+parenting+with+Zoe+Williams&rft.date=2010-06-08&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.guardian.co.uk%2Flifeandstyle%2F2010%2Fjun%2F08%2Flive-chat-parenting-zoe-williams&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZoe+Williams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZoe_Williams2013" class="citation news cs1">Zoe Williams (24 August 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2013/aug/24/why-married-late-zoe-williams">"Why I married late: a feminist's guide"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">30 April</span> 2020</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=Why+I+married+late%3A+a+feminist%27s+guide&rft.date=2013-08-24&rft.au=Zoe+Williams&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Flifeandstyle%2F2013%2Faug%2F24%2Fwhy-married-late-zoe-williams&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AZoe+Williams" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZoe_Williams2008" class="citation news cs1">Zoe Williams (11 April 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/apr/11/women.zoewilliams">"Zoe Williams: My boyfriend is right"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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