Sunday, October 19, 2008

Notorious

I don't usually do this type of thing, but this quiz sized me up just a little too well. Kinda spooky.

Guess I need to work on my Swedish accent.

(Thanks, Miguelina!)

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Your result for Are You a Jackie or a Marilyn? Or Someone Else? Mad Men-era Female Icon Quiz...

You Are an Ingrid!

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You are an Ingrid -- "I am unique"



Ingrids have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.



How to Get Along with Me

  • * Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.

  • * Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.

  • * Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.

  • * Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.

  • * Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!




What I Like About Being an Ingrid

  • * my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level

  • * my ability to establish warm connections with people

  • * admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life

  • * my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor

  • * being unique and being seen as unique by others

  • * having aesthetic sensibilities

  • * being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me




What's Hard About Being an Ingrid

  • * experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair

  • * feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved

  • * feeling guilty when I disappoint people

  • * feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me

  • * expecting too much from myself and life

  • * fearing being abandoned

  • * obsessing over resentments

  • * longing for what I don't have




Ingrids as Children Often

  • * have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original games

  • * are very sensitive

  • * feel that they don't fit in

  • * believe they are missing something that other people have

  • * attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.

  • * become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood

  • * feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)




Ingrids as Parents

  • * help their children become who they really are

  • * support their children's creativity and originality

  • * are good at helping their children get in touch with their feelings

  • * are sometimes overly critical or overly protective

  • * are usually very good with children if not too self-absorbed



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12 comments:

  1. There's just no bad result on this quiz isn't there? I'm a Jackie!

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  2. I'm an Ingrid too - and I agree, freakishly accurate results. I read them going, "Wait, how the hell did they know that?"

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  3. That really is eerily accurate - although I shouldn't be surprised because the two questions are so detailed. I'm an Audrey.

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  4. Ok I only had to cheat a little bit to get what I wanted..

    I'm a Katherine! Huzzah!

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  5. Waaaahhhhh! They don't have Lizzie Borden as a category.

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  6. I am an Ingrid too! And Damn, that is accurate... right down to the death of parent....

    Thanks for posting this!

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  7. I was a Doris. I found a lot of it to be true..fun quiz!

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  8. Well, not shocking, I am a Bette...the "strong willed" one. And by strong willed they mean something that rhymes with witch. Darn, I was hoping we could be movie star friends!!! I'm posting this on my site with linkies back you to chicky! Fun quiz!!!

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  9. ...and here it is http://tinyurl.com/6xj884
    Was going to twitter it to you but I can't DM you.

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  10. Holy crap...I was a Marilyn. I wasn't expecting that, but after reading the description I see that it's right on.

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  11. I'm also a Bette, but with such an array of cool women, you really can't go wrong. Fun quiz! I blogged about it.

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  12. Dude, none of the questions even remotely fit me. I get the feeling that I would probably have been Eeyore from Winnie the Pooh. (Heh)

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