I’d like to have a more generous, less anxious mind.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 25 January 2023 source ↗
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If you could alter one thing about yourself, what would it be?Originally asked
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Mellody Hobson
Co-chief executive and president of Ariel Investments
silver bullet is probably incentives. I think that if corporate America really said, "you're not going to get your full bonus if you don't have a diverse team working for you," I think we'd see some changes, really, really fast.
I would talk slower. When I hear myself interviewed sometimes it sounds like I’m running an auction.
How my PTSD manifests—it feels like being the only ballerina in the company saddled with a 100-pound backpack and told to go out onstage and still be graceful.
Megan Rapinoe
United States international footballer, 2006–2023
I wish I wasn’t so rash, but would I be me if I wasn’t?
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View profile →Being aware and accepting of whatever the state of my mind happens to be at the moment (even if that state is unhappy).
Pittsford, New York, writing my first book when our kids were small, riding my bike to work because we only had one car…that feeling of being needed and loved and vitally involved in something artistic that I didn’t fully understand, everything still lying ahead of us.
Read incorrectly, that sounds like a threat. No thanks, Vanity Fair !
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