Edwina Currie
Former British politician, broadcaster and writer
I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.
If you could edit your past, what would you change?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
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What would you like to be remembered for?
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Which moment embarrassed you most?
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What does love feel like?
Relationships
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m not thrilled with my lack of commitment to feminism in my 20s.
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Niamh Cusack
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I would have gone to my singing lessons at Guildhall.
Rosa Parks
Civil-rights activist
As I look back on those days, it’s just like a dream. The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known wherever we go that all of us should be free and equal and have all opportunities that others should have.
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View profile →To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.
Sacrifice the self and you will gain it. Serve the self and you will lose it.
Human, evolving and faithful.
Leaving the stage from a panic attack in my 20s. Hearing the audience angry.
Earnest, driven, Gemini.
A lifelong sleepover.
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