Nick Willing

And so the biggest lesson I had to learn was if you want to connect with a lot of people, be yourself.

Pick on the things that you really understand and know.

And don't try and cater to some kind of common denominator that you think exists amongst lots of people.

but just focus on that which is true to you in your work.

She didn't even have that kind of intellectual idea.

She was just following her instincts in a way.

In certain cases, like the abortion pictures, it's a bit different because that was a referendum that was held in Portugal in 1999 in order to see if the country would approve the legalization of abortion.

And Paula had grown up

with abortion being a dark shadow or rather not abortion but backstreet abortions being a dark shadow.

She believed that this was a public health issue and that it should be of course legal and performed in proper clinics by proper doctors and not by you know backstreet abortionists with knitting needles and the like.

So she was very excited about this referendum and what happened was

that the prime minister at the time, who was António Guterres, who now is the secretary general of the United Nations, he was prime minister of Portugal in 1998.

And although he allowed the referendum to go ahead, he headed the no campaign.

Paula never forgot him because he said it was to do with his Catholic religion.

Well, Paula didn't believe, you know, public health issues should be having complicated with religion.

So what happened is he put it on a very warm day, hot day in June.

Everyone went to the beach.

Women were too embarrassed to vote.

And my mother was furious because not enough people voted to pass.

You see, there was a threshold that you had to meet of the percentage of people that voted and not enough people voted.