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I was probably too cheeky to chairmen over the years.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2019 source ↗
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If you could revise one chapter of your past, what would you change?Originally asked
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Gloria Steinem
Writer and feminist organiser
Since hostile people still call me a former Playboy Bunny, even at 82, I probably shouldn’t have done that in my youth, even to write an exposé. And since a couple of times they’ve also referred to me as a former CIA agent, because I went to two Soviet-era communist youth festivals, I probably shouldn’t have done that, either. Yet if I hadn’t done both, I might have judged other people by such empty symbols, too.
Lionel Shriver
American author
I would have taken more drugs.
Siri Hustvedt
American novelist, essayist, poet
I would have articulated aloud the comments I too often suppressed out of deference to arrogant, condescending, sexist bores.
Rita Ora
British singer-songwriter
That I didn’t think I knew everything.
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View profile →When I met [my wife] Sandra. I was coming up 17. We met at the Two Puddings, a dance hall in Stratford.
A car accident in Italy in 1990. Four people got killed. I was lucky, I got thrown out.
It used to be worrying about football results.
That my mum and dad didn’t move to live by the sea, where we live, before they died.
As someone who had time for everybody.
The body of a 20-year-old.
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