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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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Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion.
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This is to assuage our conscience, darling she would explain to Blanca. But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need chartiy they need justice.
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write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
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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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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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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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Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
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What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.
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