Proust Questionnaire: Jo's answers

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On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:14:14 UTC Jo (21) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: to watch someone you love in mental pain knowing you can do nothing to relieve them of it/ poverty.
Where would you like to live?: France/USA
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be sure of oneself and ones talents.To have a family and a loving husband.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: self pity
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Buffy
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Sir William Wallace, Elizabeth the 1st
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Katheine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Jane Fonda, Meryl Streep, my Gran, Virginia Woolf, Jane Austen,Annie Liebowitz
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Sophie of sophie's choice
Your favorite painter?: Dali, Warhol
Your favorite musician?: Judy Garland, Etta James, Freddie Mercury, Black Eyed Peas
The quality you most admire in a man?: Sense of Humour, Intelligence, Gentleness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Assertiveness, Creativity, Humility
Your favorite virtue?: Gratitude, Humility, Laughter
Your favorite occupation?: Reading, Film, Exertion
Who would you have liked to be?: A combination of all those I admire
Your most marked characteristic?: Pride, Self-depracation, Shyness(in certain situations), mothering
What do you most value in your friends?: Honesty
What is your principle defect?: All of my most marked characteristics, lack of self-belief
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To not use ones God-given talents in the way the great creator intended
What would you like to be?: A writer of great fiction
What is your favorite color?: red, black, white
What is your favorite flower?: i'm not a lover of flowers
What is your favorite bird?: humming bird
Who are your favorite prose writers?: William Styron, Virginia Woolf, Nicholas Sparks
Who are your favorite poets?: Emily Dickinson, T.S Elliot, Edgar Lee Masters
Who are your heroes in real life?: My language teacher in high school, those who triumph over adversity
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: The suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Elizabeth I
What are your favorite names?: Jessica, Noah James, Christopher
What is it you most dislike?: my own self-pity and lethargy for life
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: The end of world war II
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Self-Confidence
How would you like to die?: In my sleep with no unfinished business
What is your present state of mind?: Searching
What is your motto?: Do your best and God will do the rest.

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