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.
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What most recently made you cry?
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
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Who most deserves an apology from you, and why?
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How close have you come to death?
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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When were you happiest?
Time & hindsight
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.
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2022 source ↗
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Sofia Coppola
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Being stuck in a project that’s not challenging me, or true to my nature.
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I splash out on holidays and scented candles – I’ve got one that my fiancee won’t let me light, so it’s just for show.
Katy Perry. I hired a Russell Brand lookalike as a joke for the radio, and she thought it was actually him. When she realised it wasn’t, she burst into tears. She was still married to him, but I didn’t take into account that there were things going on that we didn’t know.
I went on a private jet with David Hasselhoff, and it was so turbulent between LA and Vegas I thought it was going down. I also thought: “The headline won’t be about me; it will be: David Hasselhoff and friend.”
Still biting my nails.
Now. I’ve moved to Hertfordshire after 25 years in London, got a fiancee and a dog, so everything has fallen into place.
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