The question
What period or moment in your life brought you the most joy?Originally asked
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Asked in 52 of the 131 consecutive instalments of The Guardian's The Q&A harvested on 2026-08-29.
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Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2003 source ↗
Probably last night, when I went into my sons’ bedroom and kissed them on their smelly heads.
Now. I feel wiser and calmer than I’ve ever been.
Flying over the Australian outback in a jet, looking down at the incredible orange scenery, the uninhabited hills and gullies, listening to Tchaikovsky on my headphones and drinking champagne with a cigarette in my hand. It was 1984, I'd been to the Adelaide Book Festival and was going back to my husband and my children.
I’ll be at my happiest today, and probably my gloomiest at some point today, too.
My weight, but I’m working on it. I will return!
It’s never going to be absolutely perfect. There will always be something you would change if you could.
My lips are sealed.
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