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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.

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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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City of the Kings
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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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My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
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I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality.
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.
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Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.
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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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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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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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Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.
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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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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.
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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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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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You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
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We've lost our sense of ethics we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
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Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.
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Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
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Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
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