Interview meme - again

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1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better.
3. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. When others comment asking to be interviewed, ask them five questions.

I was interviewed by drbillbongo

1. If you could live in any time period, which one would it be?
The future, maybe. Or possibly the 18th century, before the world went really crazy...

2. What is your favourite book?
I don't play favourites. Or perhaps it is more accurate to say that I am fickle. Whichever book I really, really liked last is my favourite and remains so until the next time I read one that I really, really like. I have managed to collect quite the harem by now... Anyway, current favourite is Swordspoint - a melodrama of manners by Ellen Kushner, which I finished a couple of days ago and which is an absolutely delicious read. Before that, it was His Majesty's Dragon by Naomi Novik, and before that I am honestly not sure. I am looking forward to my next favourite, though, whichever it may be...

3. If you could be anyone for a day, who would you be?
Hmmm. Vanessa Paradis. Nah, sillyness aside, make that anything instead of anyone and I'd spend a day as a cat.

4. What is your opinion on abortion?
I believe in a woman's right to choose. Always and ever. That said, I also believe in a woman's right to be informed about birth control and to use it if she doesn't want to get pregnant, since getting pregnant in the first place when there are so many ways to avoid it and then getting an abortion, well, that doesn't seem quite right to me.

5. Your life is about to be turned into a movie. Who would you cast to play yourself?
Johnny Depp in drag ;-) Nah, but if someone could somehow make Helle Virkner young again, then her - because she is one of the best I've ever seen do the kind of intelligent, snarky, independent woman that I would actually like to be...

Comments

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I know I'm awfully late replying to this. *hides*

The future, maybe.
Wow! That is daring! :D Everyone I've asked that so far wanted to live somewhere in the past or maybe even in the present, but never in the future!

Whichever book I really, really liked last is my favourite and remains so until the next time I read one that I really, really like.
Oh, I'm exactly the same! :D

I also believe in a woman's right to be informed about birth control and to use it if she doesn't want to get pregnant
Basically, I agree with that. It's just that sometimes, contraceptives don't work. I think it would be wrong to refuse women the right to abort the marriage in such situations, simply because their lives change greatly with a pregnancy. It takes nine months, and whereas men can leave if it gets too much for them, women can't. But if they don't use contraception on purpose and THEN want to get an abortion, it seems wrong to me, too. Unless the mother's or the child's life is in danger or the child will be born disabled, of course. That's a different matter. And I just HATE the church's point of view on that. >.<

Johnny Depp in drag ;-)
Oh, I'd so watch that movie! :D