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I need to remember to overcome.

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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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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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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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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Sex is the instrument and love the music.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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