Proust Questionnaire: Joanne van der Woude's answers

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On Mon, 11 Jan 16 13:07:05 UTC Joanne van der Woude (36) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: depression
Where would you like to live?: New York City
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: to be close to family and friends, enjoying good food and a vibrant cultural scene
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: to the dissuaded and ignored who have given up
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: flawed scholars and scientists: experts on very small subjects
Who are your favorite characters in history?: the fools who spoke truth to powerful men and women
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: mothers who also have brilliant careers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: the women who are (so often) smarter than all the men around them
Your favorite painter?: religious Rembrandt
Your favorite musician?: Piotr Anderzewski playing Mozart
The quality you most admire in a man?: the ability to laugh at himself
The quality you most admire in a woman?: fearlessness
Your favorite virtue?: mercy
Your favorite occupation?: running
Who would you have liked to be?: Elizabeth I
Your most marked characteristic?: intensity
What do you most value in your friends?: independence of mind
What is your principle defect?: laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to have been born without a twin
What would you like to be?: more purpose driven
What is your favorite color?: emerald green
What is your favorite flower?: white tulips
What is your favorite bird?: Virginia cardinal
Who are your favorite prose writers?: David Foster Wallace, Cees Nooteboom
Who are your favorite poets?: Gerard Manly Hopkins, T.S. Eliot
Who are your heroes in real life?: Barack Obama, Claudia de Breij
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Rosalind Franklin, Aletta Jacobs
What are your favorite names?: Simon, Juana Inez
What is it you most dislike?: idem to Proust
What historical figures do you most despise?: too many to count: tyrants who oppress and impoverish those they claim to serve
What event in military history do you most admire?: I know nothing of military history
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: likability
How would you like to die?: old and surrounded by my family
What is your present state of mind?: procrastinating from real work
What is your motto?: per aspera ad astra

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