Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Seeing the future die, from Bobby Kennedy to dear friends.
What has been your biggest disappointment?
Question
What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
Question
Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Question
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Question
What is the worst job you have done?
Craft & work
Question
When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This exact question recurs in The Guardian's institutional Q&A pool.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Not having come from a class that understands how the world works.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 August 2022 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 219 →
Archie Panjabi
British actress
I was rejected by EastEnders, having been called three times. I was heartbroken.
Kevin Rowland
British singer
My brother Pete passing on in 2005.
Not keeping off the last 5lbs.
More from Adrian Dunbar
View profile →If I was 40 again.
Being a bit mean now and again, too impetuous, snappy, bit of a temper.
Needless aggression and bullying.
Working in an abattoir.
My first year of drama school: a sense of freedom, doing something I wanted to do and being with lovely people.
More on failure & regret
- Who most deserves an apology from you, and why? 209 answers
- If you could edit your past, what would you change? 203 answers
- What is the worst thing anyone has said to you? 122 answers
- Which moment embarrassed you most? 122 answers
- How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? 60 answers
- What is the hardest thing that has happened to you, and what did you carry out of it? 36 answers
Also answered this · A–Z
Adeel Akhtar, Adrian Edmondson, Adrian Scarborough, Alison Steadman, Andrea Riseborough, Anna Friel
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All failure & regret questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject