If you could edit your past, what would you change?

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Recorded Edwina Currie said elsewhere, not written here
I would be richer, I’d have beaten Mrs Thatcher’s ban on women in the cabinet, and I would be a dame.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 June 2017 source ↗

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Steve Pemberton British actor and comedian
Nothing – haven’t you heard of the butterfly effect? I could find myself still collecting glasses in Charnock Richard while Donald Sutherland would be enjoying my life.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 May 2019 source ↗

Kim Gordon American musician and artist
I wouldn’t care so much what people thought.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 21 March 2020 source ↗

Simone Biles United States artistic gymnast
Nothing. Everything has led me to who and where I am now.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2017 source ↗

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