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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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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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A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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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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I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a time.
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Affection is like the noonday sun it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.
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Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
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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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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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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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People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.
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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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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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I get hundreds of emails daily and a lot of feedback from people that are reading or have read my books. When I'm writing, or in my daily life, I just think of the work. I love to tell a story, but I might work with a story to make it the best I can without thinking of how many people will read it or if it will influence anybody.
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