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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.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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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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