The question
What do you fear most?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.
The current occupant of the White House.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2019 source ↗
A Reform government.
Having no way of earning money.
Many readers have informed me that it is a tragic and dreary business to go into death without faith. I don’t feel that way. “Faith” is neutral. All depends on what is believed in. I have no desire to live forever. The concept frightens me. I am 69, have had cancer, will die sooner than most of those reading this. That is in the nature of things.
Incapacitation.
No contest: seeing my grandchildren enjoying each other.
I’m not into self-deploring.
That I would have focused more on languages.
My husband, Paul, who is an enabler of the exuberance of his wife and five kids.
Discrimination, for any reason.
When I was raising my children.
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