Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
What is your greatest fear?
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What is the worst job you have done?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
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What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
Time & hindsight
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
Identity & self
Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I am not afraid.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2024 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 266 →My lips are sealed.
That I take this questionnaire too seriously and reveal my crimes and misdemeanors, or I treat this questionnaire too flippantly and bring shame to the House of Proust.
Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
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View profile →When Rufus first came out, it was all white guys and myself, but then the band changed and Tony Maiden, Bobby Watson and Andre Fischer came in. This guy booked us for a gig in Illinois, based on our original album cover, and when we got there he said that there were too many black people in the band. He actually put some white guys on the stage with us.
A friend said, “If you remembered everything you did, you’d kill yourself.” He’s sort of crazy, but he’s probably right.
To not be afraid, to stand there and be strong and loving and honest.
I guess lack of patience as well.
Staying alive, being here at this age. So many songs. It’s crazy.
That I have no patience.
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