Bianca Jagger: If you could edit your past, what would you change?

If you could edit 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.

Recorded Bianca Jagger said elsewhere, not written here

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.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 March 2020 source ↗

Others on this question

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Rachel Whiteread English artist

I would have thought more about exercise and a healthy lifestyle in my 20s, 30s and 40s.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 December 2017 source ↗

Russell Howard British comedian and presenter

I wouldn’t lose my virginity at an army camp and then roll over on to an ants’ nest.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 February 2020 source ↗

Robert Carlyle Scottish actor

I'd have concentrated a bit more at school and maybe gone to university rather than drama school.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗

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.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 19 August 2017 source ↗