Proust Questionnaire: Carrie's answers

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On Wed, 23 Dec 15 04:49:32 UTC Carrie (44) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: vulnerability
Where would you like to live?: Manhattan
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: ease/harmony, building a full and happy life with my son, finding personal success
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to never get to be more than I am right now
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: those who find a way to DO what their heart most desires
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Joan of Arc and any of the explorers
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: career women who seem capable of doing it all
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Elizabeth Bennett, Emma Woodhouse, Jane Eyre
Your favorite painter?: Degas
Your favorite musician?: Debussy--Clair de Lune
The quality you most admire in a man?: I have no reference--let's start with presence...
The quality you most admire in a woman?: inner strength
Your favorite virtue?: love
Your favorite occupation?: drawing for fashion--creating--imagining
Who would you have liked to be?: a great fashion designer/hip/reknowned
Your most marked characteristic?: I'm afraid that I've become so exhausted by my happening life that I've somewhow missed the true point of it all
What do you most value in your friends?: I've never opened myself up to having friends, rather I gather many acquaintances
What is your principle defect?: I'm afraid to put myself out there-- to fully commit
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have missed being my son's mother
What would you like to be?: successful
What is your favorite color?: deep, blood red
What is your favorite flower?: I see poppies within my dreams
What is your favorite bird?: seagull
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Marion Zimmer Bradley
Who are your favorite poets?: Robert Frost, Shel Silverstein
Who are your heroes in real life?: parents who make their lives about their children
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sacajawea
What are your favorite names?: I always wished I could be an adorable Maggie, a beautiful, strong force to be reckoned with
What is it you most dislike?: waiting for someday
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler, Stalin a Mousellini
What event in military history do you most admire?: the scene from Les Mis when the French people stand up and fight
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: charm
How would you like to die?: old age
What is your present state of mind?: worry, shame, misgivings
What is your motto?: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt

I am a character in a novel about Love.

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