The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
High self-esteem.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
An understanding that kindness is the answer.
A strong work ethic and enough wealth not to need it.
That they were loved.
I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
I’d have gone solo sooner.
On stage at the Brixton Academy on the third night of the residency I did there. I walked out and could not stop crying, some sort of mad relief that it’s all paid off and it’s all been worth it.
Having no way of earning money.
Julie Hesmondhalgh – she’s the kindest, brightest, most truthful woman. She’s so talented, works hard, cares about the right things, puts her energy in the right places. I adore her.
Big, shy, angry.
Five to 10, when I was just playing out and I didn’t realise I was a girl. Before my boobs came in, basically.
Bobbi Brown, Lee Child, Jack Davenport, Philippa Gregory, Romola Garai, Jon Sopel
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