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 do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What is something everyone in your world agrees about that you think is wrong?
Values & belief
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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What important truth do very few people agree with you on?
Values & belief
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When was the last time you changed your mind about something?
Change of mind
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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.
And actually they are right, because I have a real fear of blood.
Ariel Levy, The New Yorker, 2 January 2012 source ↗
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Robert Carlyle
Scottish actor
Losing my family in some way.
Robert Glenister
English actor
Premature demise.
Craig Charles
English actor
Losing my marbles.
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View profile →I still don't think I have achieved enough. I have much greater things to achieve.
But this is a herd-like mentality as they only back e-tailing and not life science ventures based on genomics et cetera.
I am very impatient, impulsive, proactive and often act in haste.
My big idea is to marry affordability and access to ensure that we leverage innovation to develop affordable, cutting-edge therapies for chronic diseases.
I guess my learning about regulatory strategies is much better now, and I may have designed many clinical trials differently - for example, oral insulin.
Then, I would have made a difference to humankind. That will be the legacy I would like to leave.
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