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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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City of the Kings
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.
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Write what should not be forgotten.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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