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.
When I was growing up, I thought quicksand was going to be a much bigger fear to contend with on a day‑to-day basis. It hasn’t proved to be a bother yet, but there’s still time.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 August 2022 source ↗
A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.
I’m a very fearless person.
Immunity to cruelty.
Losing my husband. We are properly codependent.
I can’t say no. I am a people-pleaser, and it means that I burn myself out because I take on too much.
As someone who had a laugh.
J-Lo, a foreign correspondent and, at uni, I assumed that someone would tap me on the shoulder and ask me to be in MI6, but it never happened.
This sounds so silly, but I cry with happiness all the time. I cry when my flowers open!
My younger self. I told myself so often that I was not good enough, that I was not smart enough, that I was not interesting enough, that I was boring and ugly. I wasn’t kind to my body, and I did and said things to myself that I would never do or say to a friend.
I don’t like it when people manipulate your words, which sometimes happens in the tabloids.
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