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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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Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.
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Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?
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I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy.
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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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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
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At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
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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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Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone
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Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
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Empowering women means trusting them.
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Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art.
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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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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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People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer.
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Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.
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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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Erotica is using a feather pornograpy is using the whole chicken.
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Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.
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