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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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When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in general is male, so it was rebelling against everything. Everything that was around me made me angry.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?
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As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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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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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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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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Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.
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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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