Melissa Etheridge
Singer, songwriter and guitarist
To let fear overcome my life. We’re not gonna let that happen because love is always greater than fear.
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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.
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The death of my loved ones.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, December 2019 source ↗
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Flipping my wig.
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My pathological incapacity to say no.
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The age. I would like to be 30 years old now.
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