Malala Yousafzai
Education campaigner; co-founder of the Malala Fund; United Nations Messenger of Peace
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If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗
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View all 49 →My tendency to worry about the future if there’s nothing you can do about it.
Best to leave things alone. Pull things out, it all comes down. I’m Jenga like that.
My weight, but I’m working on it. I will return!
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View profile →Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
Read incorrectly, that sounds like a threat. No thanks, Vanity Fair !
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