Proust Questionnaire: Emma's answers

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On Mon, 21 Mar 16 21:21:04 UTC Emma (34) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to have no family
Where would you like to live?: on a small farm
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be with my children and see them happy as children should be
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: there is no time for me to indulge in my faults
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: heroes that make their lives or the lives of others better
Who are your favorite characters in history?: George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Harriet from Harriet, the Moses of her People
Your favorite painter?: Renoir
Your favorite musician?: John Philip Sousa
The quality you most admire in a man?: charming, confident, and a gentleman
The quality you most admire in a woman?: confident, smart, and bold
Your favorite virtue?: courage and compassion
Your favorite occupation?: being a mother
Who would you have liked to be?: just as I am but on a farm with my children
Your most marked characteristic?: my determined walk
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty
What is your principle defect?: it is difficult to stay strong all the time
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to lose my children. Parents should never bury their children.
What would you like to be?: just as I am
What is your favorite color?: blue
What is your favorite flower?: daffodil
What is your favorite bird?: chickadee
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Hawthorne, Walden
Who are your favorite poets?: Dickenson and Longfellow
Who are your heroes in real life?: my mother and father
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Harriet Tubman
What are your favorite names?: Grace and Charles
What is it you most dislike?: seeing my children working in dangerous conditions
What historical figures do you most despise?: John Wilkes Booth
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Revolutionary War
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: persuasion
How would you like to die?: in my bed old and surrounded by those I love, especially my children.
What is your present state of mind?: Devestated with the loss of my husband
What is your motto?: family first

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