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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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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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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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