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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own inc

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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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. – Isabel Allende

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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – Isabel Allende

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I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. – Isabel Allende

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We cannot create observers by saying observe, but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. – Maria Montessori

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I had become increasingly concerned in recent years about the lack of civics education in our nations schools. In recent years, the schools have stopped teaching it. And its unfortunate. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Since my education, Ive done quite untraditional things. There are very few Etonians who went to Rada. And far fewer Etonians – certainly when I was there – went to Cambridge. I dont know whether its the same now. Most people I knew went to Oxford, because it seemed more of an easy bridge. – Tom Hiddleston

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Education commences at the mothers knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character. – Hosea Ballou

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