What does love feel like?

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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.

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Recorded Arthur Ashkin said elsewhere, not written here
I was very shy, but I knew that this lady was special,…So I had enough nerve to ask for her phone number.

Hilary Brueck, Business Insider interview at Ashkin's home, 26 January 2019 source ↗

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Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 March 2017 source ↗
When my daughter and my stepdaughters were feeling unhappy, we used to pretend to unlock something in their heart and then pour golden liquid into them, and it always warmed them. For me, that’s what love feels like – a warm feeling inside.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 September 2024 source ↗

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Question What are you most proud of? Identity & self
I didn’t realise I’m the oldest ever! So I just about made it, huh? Because you can’t be dead and win … If you’re a winner of the National Inventors Hall of Fame you can be dead. I won that prize a couple of years ago and I was very proud of that. That is the most, I would say, most important prize I’ve won.
Recorded Adam Smith, Telephone interview following the announcement of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, The Nobel Prize, 2 October 2018 source ↗

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