Quote by Isabel Allende
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and

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 dont want or they cannot feed. – Isabel Allende

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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. – Isabel Allende

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Education
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist – although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me. – Isabel Allende

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Age
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldnt find a place for myself, for years and years. – Isabel Allende

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Experience
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No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. – Rutherford B. Hayes

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Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution. – Jeff Sessions

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Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyones right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional. – Stockwell Day

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Most marriages can survive “better or worse.” The tester is all the years of “exactly the same.” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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I came to parenting the way most of us do – knowing nothing and trying to learn everything. – Mayim Bialik

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I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. – Julia Ward Howe

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Mother Nature is the ultimate truth of the show must go on. – Terri Guillemets

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I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. Im glad I was disabused. – Barry Hannah

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