I don’t have children. I will leave my nieces money because girls need money of their own. Anything to make women independent.
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A sense of the world being full of possibility and it being in their hands to make it a better one.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 November 2023 source ↗
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So maybe I don’t try to figure it out. Maybe I just aim to get the couch right: strong bones, high-quality leather, something earthy and animal and real. A surface that knows something of what it was to be alive, that warms to our touch and cools in our absence. Also: an expansive bench that fits all of us. Something that will hold us through everything that lies ahead — the loving, collapsing and nuzzling. The dying, the grieving.
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