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Empowering women means trusting them.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
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Trusting
Empowering
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Women

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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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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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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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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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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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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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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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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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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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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
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In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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