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We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

Isabel Allende

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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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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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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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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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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.
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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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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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I need to remember to overcome.
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My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.
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Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.
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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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I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.
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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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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.
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I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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