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In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

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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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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He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is it forgives everything.
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His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
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I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know everything that can possibly happen.
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In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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