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Quote by Isabel Allende
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing

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

Other quotes by Isabel Allende

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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Marriage
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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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Fear
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so. – Isabel Allende

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Women
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Other Quotes from
Death
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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, dont make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasnt death. – Stevie Ray Vaughan

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Death

My children are magical creatures and I love them to death. – Jack Black

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Death

We burned to death 100,000 Japanese civilians in Tokyo – men, women and children. LeMay recognized that what he was doing would be thought immoral if his side had lost. But what makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win? – Robert McNamara

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Death

Life and death are balanced on the edge of a razor. – Homer, Iliad

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Death

Random Quotes

You know, its sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections dont make money. – Chad Harbach

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Wisdom

God gives me the childrens ministry heart and patience. This is what He wants. Its awesome. I dont know where Hes gonna take it – but God is building this thing. – Willie Aames

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God

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated. – Al McGuire

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Back to School

Love — a wildly misunderstood although highly desirable malfunction of the heart which weakens the brain, causes eyes to sparkle, cheeks to glow, blood pressure to rise and the lips to pucker. – Author Unknown

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Being in Love