Proust Questionnaire: Maggie's answers

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On Mon, 16 Nov 15 20:45:25 UTC Maggie (23) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have to live through deaths of loved ones.
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere close to the beach, where I can smell it from my kitchen.
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To feel able and to express love and be loved in a language that I understand.
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: being unsure.
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Rhett Butler, Lord Shiva, Lord Krishna, Howard Roark
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Can't pick one.
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: My grandmothers, my mother, my aunt.
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Scarlett O'Hara, Kali, Sekhmet.
Your favorite painter?: Frida Kahlo, Pollock, several of the unnamed painters and artisans whose work is the Ajanta Ellora caves.
Your favorite musician?: Carnatic musicians.
The quality you most admire in a man?: Self-assuredness. Kindness. Passion.
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Authenticity. Expression. Passion.
Your favorite virtue?: To love.
Your favorite occupation?: Listening. Reading. Absorbing. Sometimes creating.
Who would you have liked to be?: A warrior princess.
Your most marked characteristic?: Perseverance.
What do you most value in your friends?: Kindness.
What is your principle defect?: Idealism.
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never understood love.
What would you like to be?: I would like to be...a woman.
What is your favorite color?: Black.
What is your favorite flower?: Lily. I think.
What is your favorite bird?: Peacock.
Who are your favorite prose writers?: why pick
Who are your favorite poets?: why pick
Who are your heroes in real life?: people who live through failures
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Inanna, if she has lived.
What are your favorite names?: never given it a thought.
What is it you most dislike?: helplessness
What historical figures do you most despise?: none
What event in military history do you most admire?: Japan's defeat of Russia in war.
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Grace.
How would you like to die?: In the arms of a loved one.
What is your present state of mind?: Anxiety.
What is your motto?: To live with love and authenticity.

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