Identity & self

What is your greatest fear?

265 answers answered between 1985 and 2026 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

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Mike Wallace American journalist
I don’t have any left. I’ve already lost a son. I guess, maybe, that my wife would leave me, but she wouldn’t dare.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2015 source ↗
Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2020 source ↗

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