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 be led by love and not judgment.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 December 2023 source ↗
To know thyself, as Shakespeare said.
Life is never fair.
A 'no' is free.
That I can’t control it.
As someone who tried, who had dignity, and stuck to what she believed in despite the storms.
Antiques and art – I collect 17th‑century portraits.
Safety, and being able to be completely yourself.
My stepmother died a few years ago but I didn’t make that last hour to have a conversation with her, so I’d like to say sorry for that.
Without naming names, some people I’ve put a lot of faith and trust and love into.
I didn’t enjoy a bar job and glass collecting – people could be really rude.
Isabel Allende, Lucy Lawless, Marcus Mumford, Gino D'Acampo, Maurice Sendak, Helen Skelton
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