Identity & self

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

167 answers answered between 1999 and 2026 one of 5 in The Proust Questionnaire

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Read by field Everyone Arts and letters 134 Politics and public life 14 Business and finance 10 Technology 1 Sport 8
Read by age Any age Before thirty 2 In their thirties 1 In their forties 3 In their fifties 4 In their sixties 14 Seventy and beyond 18
John Lewis U.S. Representative from Georgia, 1987–2020; Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 1963–1966
When I was growing up on a farm in rural Alabama, I fell in love with raising chickens. They seem truly innocent. Whenever I'm around chickens, I feel happy.
Recorded Vanity Fair, Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 6 December 2019 source ↗
Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser
I’m walking down a street in New York, the sun is shining, I’m on my way to see friends who are chosen family—and I’ve just written a couple of pages that I like.
Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 24 September 2020 source ↗

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