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 ↗
Karl Lagerfeld.
Jill Nalder. Lydia West played her character in It’s a Sin. She was on the wards with nurses caring for patients who were dying [of Aids] when lots of people wouldn’t go near them.
My mum – she's in her 90s, lives on her own, is lucid, wise and funny. And knows what a selfie is.
Freddie Flintoff. He played cricket in the best spirit and in his series Field of Dreams, you could see the boys hanging on his every word. He’s a special guy.
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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