20 0 VISIONARIES2 To celebrate 20 years of O, each month we’re spotlighting remarkable people who are changing the way we look at our world. THE ADVOCATE Maria Shriver THE JOURNALIST AND FORMER FIRST LADY OF CALIFORNIA BELIEVES IN GIVING BACK, SPEAKING OUT, AND STANDING UP FOR GOODNESS. PHOTOGRAPHS BY Lorenzo Agius Cardigan, O, The Oprah Magazine Collection for Talbots, $129. Top, Talbots, $79.50. Jeans, Talbots, $95. Clothing available at talbots.com. FASHION EDITOR: JACQUELINE AZRIA. HAIR: MITCH BARRY USING ORIBE HAIRCARE. MAKEUP: MARIE JOSEE LAFONTAINE USING CHANEL MAKEUP. MANICURE: ROSEANN SINGLETON FOR CHANEL VERNIS. SET DESIGN: TODD WIGGINS. LIFT THE PAGE FOR SHRIVER’S @OPRAHMAGAZINE MARCH 2020 REVEALING ANSWERS TO OUR O QUIZ! 2 20 0 VISIONARIES2 THE O QUIZ Twenty questions with Maria Shriver. Cardigan, O, The Oprah 1. What’s most And losing my when I was a little Magazine important for your independence. girl and my letters Collection for mental health? from my children. Talbots, Taking walks, my 7. If you could send $89.50. Dress, meditation practice, a note to yourself in 16. What places or Talbots, $169. and surrounding 2030, what would it adventures are still myself with people say? Your kids are all on your bucket list? healthy and happy. ADVOCACY IS IN Maria Shriver’s DNA. who love me. I’d love to visit the You did a good job. “I was raised by people who were architects Maldives. 2. What do you You can rest. of change, and they expected the same of think about on long 17. What ignites 8. What’s your their children,” says Shriver, the daughter drives or flights? your sense of I try to quiet myself favorite place on of Sargent Shriver, founding director of the injustice? and reflect. On planes, earth? My home. Peace Corps, and Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Our criminal justice I often write my essays creator of Special Olympics. “Their 9. What should be system, domestic for the Sunday Paper. required reading philosophy was that you’re here to be of violence, racial and for every human? 3. Cats or dogs? economic inequality, service.” Shriver has carried that legacy Gift from the Sea Dogs. (Hi, Maverick the lack of support forward: as a champion of people with and Champ!) by Anne Morrow for the millions intellectual and developmental disabilities Lindbergh. 4. Who’s your hero? of caregivers in through her work with Special Olympics and Number one is my 10. Fill in the blank: our country—so Best Buddies International, which offers job mom. She raised is underrated. many things, I can’t and socializing opportunities; as first lady of five kids, was married Contentment. pick one. California, establishing what would become for over half a 11. What’s one century, and changed 18. How do you the organization A Woman’s Nation, focusing thing you were the world for those define soul mate? on economic empowerment, social justice, wrong about? I’ve with intellectual Someone you meet and health; and as a journalist and storyteller. been wrong about disabilities. I really who immediately AHer reportorial curiosity served her well many things! admire my feels like home. when she began her biggest mission to date: grandmother and 12. When in your raising awareness of Alzheimer’s disease. many other women in life have you 19. What’s the my family. I’ve also greatest gift we can “I met so many women with Alzheimer’s, needed courage? looked up to Mother When have I not? give each other? and I kept telling doctors, ‘I think this is more Teresa, Eleanor Showing our love. prevalent in women,’” says Shriver, who dove 13. What movie Roosevelt, Anne Making time for could you watch on into the data to create The Shriver Report: Morrow Lindbergh, someone is an act Sister Joan Chittister, an endless loop? A Woman’s Nation Takes on Alzheimer’s. of love. So is calling Betty Ford, my friend Wedding Crashers, The report backed up her observation— them to check Charlotte Shultz, Knocked Up, Step two-thirds of sufferers are female. Now, as and numerous other Brothers, It’s in, making room at founder of the nonprofit Women’s women from Complicated...and your table, inviting Alzheimer’s Movement and the head of different walks of life. lots more. someone in. These are all acts of seeing California’s task force on Alzheimer’s 14. What historical 5. What’s your another human being research, she’s leading the charge to find out guilty pleasure? event would you and letting them why. Shriver aims to be not only an architect Popcorn. 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