Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗
The question
Which quality in your friends matters most to you?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Humor. Laughing with my girlfriends is one of my great joys.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 February 2025 source ↗
Being able to share a confidence.
I like all my friends for different reasons, so it’s hard to pick one quality I value most highly overall.
Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.
They take my calls.
On a beach, watching my girls do cartwheels, with a Goombay Smash with a floater on top.
Drowning. The feeling of not being able to take a breath. I’m sure my therapist would have something to say about the deep psychological reasons for it.
Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
I would erase my fear of dying, but I suppose that would be erasing some of my human condition.
Gloria Steinem.
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