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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Committing
Sins
Lust
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Worth
Opinion
Two
Aphrodite
Gluttony

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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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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.
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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.
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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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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth.
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I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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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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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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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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