Proust Questionnaire: Marianthy Karantzes's answers

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On Fri, 02 Mar 18 04:12:24 UTC Marianthy Karantzes answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be married at a young age
Where would you like to live?: Athens, or Thessalonika
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be surrounded by books, stories, and the people who love them
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I wouldnt know!
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Sappho, Boudicca, Mirabai, Margaret Fuller
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: The women who were able to go on and get an education!
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: My favorite heroines of fiction are those that broke the bonds of their patriarchal society and became who they were destined to be.
Your favorite painter?: Gustav Klimt
Your favorite musician?: Sofia Vempo
The quality you most admire in a man?: A respect of women
The quality you most admire in a woman?: A respect of her own being in the world
Your favorite virtue?: HONOR. COURAGE. COMPASSION. RESPECT. LOYALTY. HONESTY. PRUDENCE. GRACE.
Your favorite occupation?: Reading...always reading!
Who would you have liked to be?: Who? I am not sure, maybe a mix of all my favorite women in history
Your most marked characteristic?: The need for more...more out of life
What do you most value in your friends?: Loyalty
What is your principle defect?: Being a dreamer
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: Never to have had the opportunity to grow as an individual
What would you like to be?: A strong independent woman
What is your favorite color?: Blue, like the deep blue sky of the Ionian spread before me
What is your favorite flower?: The poppy
What is your favorite bird?: The swallow
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Kazantzakis and Karagatsis
Who are your favorite poets?: Cavafi
Who are your heroes in real life?: My child....she fought so valiantly
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Sappho
What are your favorite names?: This has never crossed my mind..I would have to think about it
What is it you most dislike?: Patriarchy
What historical figures do you most despise?: Hitler
What event in military history do you most admire?: The Greeks that fought so bravely against the Albanians!
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: The gift of standing up for what I believe in
How would you like to die?: Richer in thought than I entered the world
What is your present state of mind?: That is a question best left unanswered
What is your motto?: I have no motto...what is a motto exactly and how would it fit in my yearnings for betterment?

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