“Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don’t take it off until you’re thirty-four”
In her 1961 essay “On Self-Respect,” Joan Didion described an antidote for feelings of regret: learn, and move on from them. “People with self-respect have the courage of their mistakes,” she wrote. “Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.”
Below, 25 famous women recall choices of varying magnitude, from photo gaffs to bigger questions related to family, career, and living out their 20s. Read on for stories from Tina Turner, Carrie Fisher, Barbara Walters, and more who have regrets, or choose not to.“One Christmas at the very beginning of your twenties when your mother gives you a warm coat that she saved for months to buy, don’t look at her skeptically after she tells you she thought the coat was perfect for you.
Don’t hold it up and say it’s longer than you like your coats to be and too puffy and possibly even too warm. Your mother will be dead by spring. That coat will be the last gift she gave you. You will regret the small thing you didn’t say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.” —Dear Sugar, The Rumpus, February 2011“If you don’t have enough regret in your life, try cutting bangs.
I’m not going to beat myself up over it because it is what it is, and I’m here and it’s great; it made me who I am. But I wish that I had spent those youthful years just feeding this mind.” —Oprah, February 2015“When people ask me if I regret not having children, I can feel the pressure to say ‘yes’. But I don’t and I never did. When I was much younger I assumed I had to have children. I assumed everyone had to have children.
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