The question
Which trait in yourself do you like least?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.
Appearing angry when I’m not angry.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 December 2023 source ↗
Impatience and anger.
Well, first of all I’d like to change the word “deplore” to “dislike.” I guess that I’m almost a hermit; I don’t enjoy going out that much, and so I tend to take my happiness from the joys of my home and my husband.
Still biting my nails.
Always saying yes to people. For example, I’m doing this.
Physically, falling off my bike two years ago. Emotionally, when my mother died when I was 27.
As Tilda Swinton in a fat suit.
“Sorry, I don’t mean to insult you, but did you know you look a bit like that actress Siobhán McSweeney?”
So many. I have been very cowardly in the past, and it came across as me not caring, when the opposite was true.
Being loved by my family and friends despite my personality.
My impotence in the face of war.
Malala Yousafzai, Mary Tyler Moore, Cathy Rigby, Martha Stewart, Angela Hartnett, Bonnie Raitt
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