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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.
Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
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City of the Kings
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It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
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You write a book and it's like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don't know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person.
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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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At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.
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I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50.
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In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
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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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I'm not a fan of mysteries, so to prepare for this experience of writing a mystery I started reading the most successful ones in the market in 2012. And I realized I cannot write that kind of book. It's too gruesome, too violent, too dark there's no redemption there.
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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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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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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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Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
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The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
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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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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 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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I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones.
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