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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

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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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Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. – Isabel Allende

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Women
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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 dont want or they cannot feed. – Isabel Allende

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Marriage
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Death
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Death Valley is really wide-open – its bigger than Rhode Island – and its less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so theres lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on. – Gus Van Sant

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Death

I couldnt have foreseen all the good things that have followed my mothers death. The renewed energy, the surprising sweetness of grief. The tenderness I feel for strangers on walkers. The deeper love I have for my siblings and friends. The desire to play the mandolin. The gift of a visitation. – Mary Schmich

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Death

It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death. – Jacqueline Cochran

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Death

Defoe says that there were a hundred thousand country fellows in his time ready to fight to the death against popery, without knowing whether popery was a man or a horse. – William Hazlitt

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Death

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The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant. – Constance Baker Motley

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We had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little, we went insane. – Francis Ford Coppola

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The intelligence community gets hurt through sequestration. – Lindsey Graham

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Intelligence