Proust Questionnaire: Emily's answers

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On Sun, 14 Feb 16 07:50:21 UTC Emily (22) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: Reaching for the phone and having no one to call
Where would you like to live?: Someplace cozy but not cluttered, in a town big enough to get lost in
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To know what you want and never have to struggle for it
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Selfishness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: My favorite stories do not concern heroes
Who are your favorite characters in history?: I'm partial to anachronistic women living by their own rules
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: I feel like I should say, my mom
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: I like Jane Eyre and Wonder Woman, among others
Your favorite painter?: Is one who lets color and shape speak for itself
Your favorite musician?: Hard to say
The quality you most admire in a man?: I'll put two qualities on the next line, applicable to any gender.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Quiet confidence and empathy
Your favorite virtue?: Love
Your favorite occupation?: I really appreciate nurses. It seems really hard to do what they do.
Who would you have liked to be?: I'm pretty lucky to be me.
Your most marked characteristic?: My eyes are rather big. Other than that, I don't know what other people see in me any better than I know what I see in myself.
What do you most value in your friends?: Reliability
What is your principle defect?: I assume sometimes that certain people are not worth understanding
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: I was thinking about this recently - to accidentally kill someone with your car
What would you like to be?: Happier
What is your favorite color?: I say orange
What is your favorite flower?: Any flower given by someone I love
What is your favorite bird?: I like to watch the ones that float in swarms through the sky
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Dostoevsky, Wilde, Joyce
Who are your favorite poets?: Guillevic, Lorine Niedecker, Edna St Vincent Millay, Sylvia Plath
Who are your heroes in real life?: The people who fight for what they believe
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Cleopatra, Joan of Arc
What are your favorite names?: I like Sid for a boy and Georgie for a girl, after my great aunt
What is it you most dislike?: Being talked down to
What historical figures do you most despise?: Fascists of any era
What event in military history do you most admire?: Hard to say
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: A decent singing voice
How would you like to die?: Suddenly, when I'm very old
What is your present state of mind?: Tired
What is your motto?: Everything will work out

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