The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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My all-girls’ high school. I hated it. Large groups of teenage girls aren’t known for their empathy and kindness. It was a shock to realise that people viewed me as uncool because of the way my body worked.
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I would have skipped the time my daughter was nine to 13, when I was in a toxic relationship.
I’d have stuck with the original Dexys Midnight Runners look we started in 1978, which became known as the New Romantic look a couple of years later. Our management and record label talked us out of it. Later, Duran Duran and Spandau came out with that look and that made us look old-fashioned.
My relationship with drugs.
I’m not thrilled with my lack of commitment to feminism in my 20s.
The 2019 general election.
My relationship.
A never-ending hug.
I’ve liked all my jobs, amazingly.
I don’t own a property. The carpet in our flat; it’s not fancy or anything.
As the woman who never died.
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