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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
Brotherhood
Circle
Circles
Diversity
Requires
Peace
Everyone
Inclusion
Wholeness

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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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We don't have an explanation for everything that happens. We don't control almost anything. And if we are not open to that mystery, life becomes so small.
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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'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
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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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I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
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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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We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.
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Someone has said that conversation is sex for the soul.
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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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I need to remember to overcome.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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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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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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