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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
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I like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
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My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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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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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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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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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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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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