Moments of vanity, carelessness and unkindness.
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Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗
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Going through a divorce.
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Not applying myself enough at school.
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I would really love to know my parents as an adult. I lost my dad when I was 14 and my mum when I was 20.
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On a walking safari in the middle of the Kenyan bush. I had no phone, no mirror, nothing, and I was really happy because I had no distractions.
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They are already things I work on: routine and less sugar.
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I wanted to be a cooker. Not a cook: I wanted to actually be the stove.
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – everything she writes speaks to me. Her Ted talk, We Should All Be Feminists, inspired everything I do with Gurls Talk.
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