Proust Questionnaire: cindy's answers

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On Thu, 22 Jan 15 14:45:14 UTC cindy (50) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: watching your child suffer
Where would you like to live?: near the NJ ocean and a walkable transit-friendly downtown
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To spend my day reading, writing, exchanging ideas, debating philosophies, publishing something somewhere or creating something from nothing
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Happy Hour...
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Holden Caulfield, Tyler Durden
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Zelda Fitzgerald, Simone deBeauvoir
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: my mother, both of my grandmothers
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Contemporary female characters who have heightened senses (and pixie dust). Alice Hoffman and Amy Tan have drawn some of my favorites.
Your favorite painter?: Matisse
Your favorite musician?: my husband
The quality you most admire in a man?: humility, curiosity, kindness
The quality you most admire in a woman?: assertiveness, authenticity, kindness
Your favorite virtue?: empathy and compassion
Your favorite occupation?: anything in a newsroom
Who would you have liked to be?: a magazine staff writer
Your most marked characteristic?: my biting criticism
What do you most value in your friends?: Good conversations and lots of laughs
What is your principle defect?: i think too much and eventually too many thoughts come out of my mouth
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: to die having never known how to love yourself for you who are
What would you like to be?: The competition you never saw coming, your very worst nightmare
What is your favorite color?: Orange
What is your favorite flower?: hydrangea
What is your favorite bird?: whoever's singing outside my window
Who are your favorite prose writers?: At the moment ...
Who are your favorite poets?: ee cummings, rainer maria rilke, pablo neruda
Who are your heroes in real life?: (i'm still thinking)
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Annie Sullivan
What are your favorite names?: Bowie. I decided it works for a cat, dog, even a baby -- boy or girl!
What is it you most dislike?: i can't afford health insurance
What historical figures do you most despise?: Most US Presidents and Congress ...
What event in military history do you most admire?: 2013 Somalia
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: patience and perseverance
How would you like to die?: with inner peace
What is your present state of mind?: hopeful
What is your motto?: You're better than most so just do it already

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