Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
I would love to have a good memory. I’m at an age when remembering something right away is as good as an orgasm.
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
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What is your greatest fear?
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How would you like to die?
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
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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.
My laziness. Not in work-related matters, but social laziness. Thank-you letters, organization, that sort of thing.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2015 source ↗
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Sally Field
Actor
I’d be more patient, which I didn’t consider a virtue until right this moment.
Bonnie Raitt
Singer and guitarist
Balancing my inner and outer life.
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Over two weeks, in a pleasant fug of palliative morphine if necessary. Just time to say a cheerful good-bye to everyone.
Lying in one of two twin hammocks on an English lawn in June. A glass of something cool and vinous is balanced on my tummy. A speaker hanging above the tree plays Glenn Gould. A Wodehouse novel is spread-eagled on my chest. I will pick it up in a moment. Oh, the other hammock is occupied by my beloved husband.
Probably Daniel Barenboim. His blend of insane talent, intellect, and profound humanitarianism is one that comes along very, very rarely. I would put Martina Navratilova and Stephen Sondheim in a tie for second.
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