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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Through food, I’ve become more interested in the protection of soil, the way things are grown, and biodiversity. I’d have become a quantum physicist!
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 26 February 2022 source ↗
I sometimes wish I had had the courage to be a politician – but I made the decision to be a human rights defender instead. I realised I cannot be both at the same time, because they may be incompatible.
I would have been better with money.
That I didn’t think I knew everything.
The floral waistcoat and shocking-pink shirt combo I wore on my 21st.
It feels healthy and it makes your body tingle and you feel excited to be alive.
A nurse, because my grandmother was a midwife. I was named after her but never got to meet her.
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