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.
To be abandoned.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2010 source ↗
Running out of ideas.
My children dying before me.
Violent death. Death generally.
Being found out.
First of all, to be in love. The second way of being very happy is to be able to get the best out of yourself, whatever it is.
To be dishonest. Sometimes people have to be dishonest in order not to hurt, but if someone is basically dishonest, that is a different matter.
My inferiority complex.
Mandela. Also, artists and painters. I admire people who are creative.
In the mountains, climbing into beautiful places—anything that has to do with nature. I feel best in nature or near nature. And I was most happy, of course, when I was with my husband and we were in beautiful landscapes.
Maureen O'Hara, Bear Grylls, Olivia de Havilland, John Malkovich, Mike Skinner, Michael Flatley
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