Procrastinating. I saved answering this questionnaire until the very last minute.

Indecisiveness. It can be really annoying, especially when I am out to dinner and can’t decide between the chicken or the fish.

Again, not gonna change anything about myself. I’ve really learned to appreciate everything. Okay, maybe I’d be taller. How about that?

I wouldn’t change anything about myself. If you asked me 20 years ago, I probably would have had a long list. But I’ve learned to appreciate and love who I am.

In my 30s, I was staring at a pair of expensive boots in a shop window when the photographer Gordon Parks came up behind me. He instantly understood, because he grew up even poorer than me; he made me buy them on my credit card.

As someone who left the world around me a little kinder and less hierarchical.

Being a salesgirl in a baby shop where the others said things like, “He’s Jewish, but she’s American.” Also, after college, being a waitress in London, and trying to make change in the old money of shillings and pence.

Feeling you want someone else’s welfare as much and sometimes more than your own.

I behaved badly with two old lovers. Years later, when I took one to lunch to apologise, it made it worse.

Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.