Eve Ensler: If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?

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.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Eve Ensler

American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 June 2019 source ↗

Others on this question

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Lauren Laverne English radio DJ, and television presenter

It would have been lovely to have grown up in private like a lot of my friends.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 5 February 2022 source ↗

Helen George English actress

Going through a divorce.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 January 2023 source ↗

Adwoa Aboah British fashion model

Nothing. Everything’s got me to this point and I had to learn lots of things. Maybe I just wouldn’t have been so terrified all the time and I would have got up a bit earlier – I missed quite a few mornings.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 March 2019 source ↗

Bill Bryson American-British author

Nothing. It’s too risky. What if you eliminated a misjudged situation from your life and it turned out that one of your children wasn’t born, or you failed to meet your partner?

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 February 2016 source ↗