The question
What lesson has mattered most in your life?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
To live your best life every day, because tomorrow isn’t promised.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2023 source ↗
That you’re stronger than you think you are.
Evolve or perish.
Life is not worth living if there is no one you would die for.
So I think failure is important in my career.
My father was a very macho, controlling man and we clashed a lot. He told me that I would never be able to keep a husband with my attitude. He was right! I’ve had two short, unsuccessful marriages.
Escaping an abusive teen marriage and being blessed with the opportunity to create a new life for myself and my two young children in London at the height of the swinging 60s.
At this time in my life, I quite like myself but, for a large portion of my life, I deplored being shy.
Loving, sincere, honest.
Oprah Winfrey, as Maya Angelou and Tina Turner are no longer with us. These women are Afro-American queens who, despite growing up in the racist south experiencing physical, emotional and sexual abuse, rose to the top of their professions and are an inspiration to women everywhere.
Arrogance combined with egotism and selfishness.
Kelly Hoppen, Indira Varma, Rebecca Ferguson, Erin Doherty, Clive James, Leona Lewis
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