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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights.
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That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies.
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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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I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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