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When did you last change your mind about something important?

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Vox, to writers and thinkers, 9 Questions, 2017

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My mind is changing about being a mum. I got a dog and the way I feel about it is a lot, and I realise maybe I would want to be a mum.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 November 2025 source ↗
July 2018, when I married my third husband, Roger, after two years of proclaiming that marriage at 76 was stupid.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 December 2024 source ↗
Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; chair of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Nobel Peace Prize, 1984
I used to be “Mister Disinvestment.” Now I would like to be Mister Investment and say, “Come! Come and be part of an exciting, exhilarating process. Come in! Come in on the ground floor and see a people do something that’s probably never happened before, people seeking to become something radically different from what their antecedents would have made us believe they were likely to become.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview source ↗

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