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With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

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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Words
Women
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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
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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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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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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with.
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I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today's world is a better place!
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.
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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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Happiness is pure kitch we come into the world to suffer and learn.
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Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.
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I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.
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How accommodating love is it forgives everything.
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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.
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There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.
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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
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