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Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.

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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Youth
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Writers speak for those who are kept in silence
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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.
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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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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
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She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had changed her life just the opposite, she felt that they had tempered her, made her strong, given her pride in making decisions and paying the consequences for them.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.
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My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
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It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students.
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I need to remember to overcome.
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It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie.
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He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
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I'm not above anybody. I'm, I'm not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.
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I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
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Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
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Everyone is born with some special talent.
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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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Barrabas came to us by the sea.
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