The question
If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Repeated verbatim in The Guardian's long-running Saturday Q&A; two publisher-hosted examples establish recurrence.
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I would do more weightlifting than aerobics. Strong is better than skinny.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗
As I look back on those days, it’s just like a dream. The only thing that bothered me was that we waited so long to make this protest and to let it be known wherever we go that all of us should be free and equal and have all opportunities that others should have.
I’d have been there on the spot for every major news story I’ve talked about in the studio, at the time it happened.
In particular, my decision to sell McDonald's was a very big mistake. Overall, you would have been better off last year if I had regularly snuck off to the movies during market hours.
How little confidence I had in my late teens and early 20s.
Pure happiness.
Nice, direct, loyal.
My husband, who always seems to have everything in control and is so consistent.
Being at our beach house with my family in the Bahamas.
My very long to-do list.
I think our kids take our stuff!
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