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The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗
Being happy. I think that transcends the results of my matches, the so-called successes or failures. How would you like to be remembered? As someone who dedicated their life to what they were doing at the time. Right now, it’s tennis, but I want to have the same dedication for whatever I do after, whether it be motherhood or another career.
Bringing up my three sons.
That my son is kind and he loves David Bowie.
Learning to surf - a 6ft frame is a real hindrance for the sport.
I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
I have a penchant for happiness. I have experienced euphoria before a migraine, which may not count, but I have also felt immense happiness leaning back in a chair in sunlight, puttering in my garden, reading, dancing, immediately after giving birth and when writing.
The man who asked me directions on the subway seven years ago: I am so sorry for sending you to Queens rather than to the Bronx.
I was a floor model briefly at Bloomingdale’s in New York in 1979. I hated it. When no one was watching, I would lock myself in the toilet and read.
Armistead Maupin, Cressida Cowell, Ethan Hawke, Fatima Bhutto, Fran Lebowitz, Gregg Wallace
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