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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?

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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