The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?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.
Raising two children. If you can get your kids to adulthood and they’re not voting Tory, doing drugs or collecting Nazi memorabilia, then you deserve a medal.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2024 source ↗
Staying sane in a career path that tries endlessly to unnerve you.
Being mum to my awesome children, Woody and Nelly. They make my day, every day. I do joke with them that I’m happy to pay for the therapy they’ll inevitably need in later years due to my terrible parenting.
That way madness lies.
That performance art has become a part of mainstream art.
People who pretend to have perfect marriages. Perfect marriages are like orgasms – many of them are faked.
When the book of my enemy was discounted.
Bedpan emptier in a hospital.
As a writer who championed women with grit and wit.
My own books being discounted. Oh, and sharks. The reason we Aussies swim so fast is because something much bigger is always trying to eat us.
I can’t cook. I use my smoke alarm as a timer.
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