Proust Questionnaire: Victoria's answers

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On Tue, 12 May 2009 22:01:57 UTC Victoria (37) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To be forced to act in a way other than as myself
Where would you like to live?: A small five-acre farm near the city
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be loved by someone who will protect me, yet be kind to me
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: I tend to indulge laziness too much
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: People unafraid to be weird, but who also have good souls
Who are your favorite characters in history?: People who fought (and died) for the right to vote and the right to learn
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Women who raise children to be adults ready to take on the world
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Women who make the best out a bad situation and turn things around for the better
Your favorite painter?: Salvador Dali
Your favorite musician?: Stevie Wonder
The quality you most admire in a man?: Kindness, spirituality, intelligence
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Strength, intelligence, inner beauty
Your favorite virtue?: Love
Your favorite occupation?: Writing, farming
Who would you have liked to be?: A wealthy heiress who never has to worry about food, clothes, transportation, or a home
Your most marked characteristic?: a need to learn, a need to teach
What do you most value in your friends?: loyalty
What is your principle defect?: anxiety, laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: a sudden death with no one to try to save my life
What would you like to be?: myself, but wealthier, healthier, wiser, and better-educated
What is your favorite color?: orange
What is your favorite flower?: the yellow rose, the sunflower
What is your favorite bird?: the peacock, the flamingo, the chicken (have you seen the chickens at county fairs?)
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Dean Koontz
Who are your favorite poets?: Dr. Maya Angelou
Who are your heroes in real life?: my grandfather (who passed away over 20 years ago)
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Dr. Maya Angelou
What are your favorite names?: I have no favorite names, but one should name the adult rather than the child he or she is now.
What is it you most dislike?: Hatred, even of my own self
What historical figures do you most despise?: Dictators, religious intolerants
What event in military history do you most admire?: none; war is evil, and there are far better ways to resolve conflict
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: a fast metabolism
How would you like to die?: In the arms of an angel, neither my body nor my spirit knowing I have died
What is your present state of mind?: I crave tea
What is your motto?: If you want world peace, be world peace. If you want love, be love

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