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.
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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.
I’d be born a man and have a wife to run the house.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 July 2016 source ↗
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Eve Ensler
American playwright, performer, feminist, and activist
I would have honoured my body, I would have lived inside it, cherished it and protected it.
Ian McEwan
British novelist and screenwriter
To have grown up with my siblings. They were at least 10 years older than me.
Tracey Ullman
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I would have stopped making records after They Don’t Know.
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Now, by far. Old enough to know time’s short, young enough to use it.
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