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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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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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My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.
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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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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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It's good for a writer to come from journalism because it gives you the tools. A journalist knows that he or she can lose the reader in six lines, so try to keep the attention of the reader. Also, you learn to research, and to conduct an interview - to extract from the person whatever you need from that person.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
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I'm an expert. I can kill anybody and not be caught.
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
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Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.
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Writing is a calling, not a choice.
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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
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if we don't begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one?
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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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Be careful what you ask of Heaven it might be granted.
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The one that came really easy was the Japanese lover, because he's like a ghost in the book. He's always in the background like a spirit, like a shadow, almost. There's a very delicate line there.
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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to die in, die painfully. But I'm aware of the fact that they may die before I do and I have to part with them and take the loss. The hardest thing of love is to let go. But I think I can get let go of almost anybody.
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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