The question
Who alive today do you admire most, and what draws you to them?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Malala Yousafzai, Gloria Steinem, Meryl Streep – all suffragettes, in their own way.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2015 source ↗
Anyone who lives outside the box.
Hillary Clinton – people make her responsible for what Bill did, but she’s just as innocent as I was when my husband cheated on me.
All the people I work with, people like Anna Wintour and Bruce Weber.
My mother, because now I have two sons and I have help around me – including my family – I can't imagine having four little ones under the age of nine, as she did.
Eating Marmite on toast just after the birth of my daughter in 2004.
Yesterday. Everything seemed impossible.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Nadine Gordimer, Angus Deayton, Meg Rosoff, Ann Patchett, John Cooper Clarke
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