Proust Questionnaire: Cherie's answers

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On Wed, 16 Oct 13 12:43:37 UTC Cherie (40) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to lose my mother or any one I love
Where would you like to live?: on the park in New Orleans in a beautiful old home
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: sitting on a porch on a crisp autumn evening watching my neice and nephews play and sing and dance with the rest of the loves of my life
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: my shopping additction and need to feel well dressed
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Jesus
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Oprah Winfrey, Ellen Degeneres
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Jo in Little Women, Portia in Merchant of Venice
Your favorite painter?: John Singer Sargent, Renoir
Your favorite musician?: Debussy
The quality you most admire in a man?: just
The quality you most admire in a woman?: quiet strength
Your favorite virtue?: truth
Your favorite occupation?: teaching
Who would you have liked to be?: a playwright
Your most marked characteristic?: loving and nurturing
What do you most value in your friends?: warmth and genuineness
What is your principle defect?: lack of drive
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: losing my mother and everything she's taught me; losing my mind
What would you like to be?: the best version of myself, but thinner with perkier boobs
What is your favorite color?: blue
What is your favorite flower?: daisy
What is your favorite bird?: little ones
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Tina Fey, Shadows of the WInd guy
Who are your favorite poets?: Shakespeare
Who are your heroes in real life?: my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: I already answered this
What are your favorite names?: mine, Grace, Olivia, and all the ones I get to say regularly
What is it you most dislike?: liars, entitlement, inability to recognize ones own faults
What historical figures do you most despise?: um, Hitler and the like
What event in military history do you most admire?: eh
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: ability to self motivate and remove fear from self
How would you like to die?: in the arms of someone I love
What is your present state of mind?: I need to take better care of myself
What is your motto?: To thine own self be true. And too everyone else also.

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