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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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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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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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If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.
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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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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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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 first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.
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I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
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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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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
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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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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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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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Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions.
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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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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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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing.
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
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