The question
If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That I would have focused more on languages.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 30 May 2019 source ↗
I’ve constantly been changing myself my whole life. I am what you would call “a piece of work” in progress.
My dyslexia. Or my inability to learn another language.
First of all, I’d like to stop complaining—I’m beginning to annoy myself. I would like to learn to read faster, however. Again, the rest I’ve learned to live with.
I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
My husband, Paul, who is an enabler of the exuberance of his wife and five kids.
The current occupant of the White House.
Discrimination, for any reason.
No contest: seeing my grandchildren enjoying each other.
When I was raising my children.
I’m not into self-deploring.
Malala Yousafzai, Monica Lewinsky, Barack Obama, Gloria Steinem, Ed Koch, Rachel Maddow
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