Proust Questionnaire: Amy's answers

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On Thu, 22 Jul 10 17:57:47 UTC Amy (33) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be lonely
Where would you like to live?: On my own ranch, self-sufficient, enough land to live on
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To have music, the love of human beings, humor, and good food
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Inability to dance
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: David Copperfield, Sydney Carton, Mr. Rochester, Captain Wentworth, John Proctor
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Elizabeth I, John Paul Jones, William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, Robert Burns, Grace O'Malley
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Eleanor Roosevelt, Boadicea, Mary Wollstonecraft, Emily Dickinson
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jane Eyre, Morgan le Fey, Anne Elliott, and the sisters from the Poisonwood Bible
Your favorite painter?: John Waterhouse
Your favorite musician?: Beethoven
The quality you most admire in a man?: a sense of self, kindness, humor, courage
The quality you most admire in a woman?: humor, strength, intuition, kindness
Your favorite virtue?: Acceptance of others
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, writing, cross-stitching, cooking
Who would you have liked to be?: myself.
Your most marked characteristic?: Independence
What do you most value in your friends?: Sense of humor
What is your principle defect?: inability to express my feelings
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to be deaf
What would you like to be?: Myself, but healthier
What is your favorite color?: Red
What is your favorite flower?: Any flower that smells good and is beautiful.
What is your favorite bird?: The Canadian goose
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Barbara Kingsolver, Sue Monk Kidd
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost
Who are your heroes in real life?: Bob Dylan, my parents and grandparents
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Elizabeth I, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What are your favorite names?: old-fashioned names, especially Irish/Scottish
What is it you most dislike?: Foods I hate
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler. Andrew Jackson. George W. Bush.
What event in military history do you most admire?: Agincourt
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: willpower
How would you like to die?: Asleep.
What is your present state of mind?: Exhaustion
What is your motto?: I wish it were carpe diem, but I don't have a motto.

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