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.
A midwife named Jennie Joseph. She is a tireless activist for women, family health and equal access to quality maternity care.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 May 2017 source ↗
My mum, because she’s been a nurse for over 40 years. She works in a hospice, and there’s no bullshit with her.
Mandela. Also, artists and painters. I admire people who are creative.
I have to say myself, because I know everything that he’s been through and still continues to go through. I admire him. So I vote me – I like him.
Hillary Clinton.
As someone who didn’t waste a minute.
The birth of my daughter.
Before kids, when I was 13 or so, on the back of my horse, running at full speed in an open pasture. Post kids, happiness happens often, but in more subtle ways. I now prefer the word “content”.
To strangers. Living in New York, I see individuals every day who are invisible to so many. I want to say sorry that so many of us think their pain and suffering is not our own.
The fact that at least 300,000 women die every year from pregnancy and childbirth-related issues that are largely preventable.
My father’s death before my marriage and motherhood.
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