Proust Questionnaire: Lainey's answers

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On Fri, 31 Dec 10 05:18:43 UTC Lainey (38) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: To have no hope
Where would you like to live?: Somewhere colder
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: To be surrounded by my loving family
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: Laziness
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: The ones who are flawed
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Cleopatra, my own ancestors, Hamilton
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Michelle Obama, the artists and writers I follow, my friend Cole
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Those who defy the categories
Your favorite painter?: Gwyneth
Your favorite musician?: Ani
The quality you most admire in a man?: Humor
The quality you most admire in a woman?: Irreverence
Your favorite virtue?: Forging one's own path
Your favorite occupation?: Reading,creating, writing
Who would you have liked to be?: Marie Curie
Your most marked characteristic?: Loyalty
What do you most value in your friends?: A sense of adventure
What is your principle defect?: Laziness
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have never known the love of my children
What would you like to be?: A crazy, irreverent cat lady
What is your favorite color?: Turquoise
What is your favorite flower?: Gerbera daisy
What is your favorite bird?: Hawk
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood
Who are your favorite poets?: Langston Hughes, Frost, Dickenson, Mary Oliver
Who are your heroes in real life?: Cole, my mom, all women out there who work so much harder than I do to keep it together
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Marie Curie, Cleopatra, Margaret Sanger
What are your favorite names?: Fusty old names like Lilac, Olive
What is it you most dislike?: Intolerance
What historical figures do you most despise?: The list seems overwhelming
What event in military history do you most admire?: The sacrifices of so many nameless people
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: Charm and a higher metabolism
How would you like to die?: Surrounded by loved ones and content with my life
What is your present state of mind?: Contented
What is your motto?: Just keep swimming

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