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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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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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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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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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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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Agosins poetic language engages the reader in a mesmerizing journey of inward reflection and exile.
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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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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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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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The hardest thing of love is to let go.
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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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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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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it.
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The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.
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My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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