Melissa Etheridge: Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Melissa Etheridge said elsewhere, not written here

Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

My tendency to be avoidant.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 April 2026 source ↗

Laziness and procrastination.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2010 source ↗

Very impatient, bossy, always late.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗

I can be pedantic at times.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2018 source ↗

To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2023 source ↗

Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 September 2023 source ↗

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