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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Everyone
Inclusion
Wholeness
Brotherhood
Circle
Circles
Diversity
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Peace

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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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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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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women's suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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