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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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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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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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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. – Isabel Allende

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Change
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A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. – Imran Khan

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Death doesnt affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesnt concern the dead because they have ceased to exist. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Death

Death and life have their determined appointments riches and honors depend upon heaven. – Confucius

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Death

I am one who believes that one of the greatest dangers of advertising is not that of misleading people, but that of boring them to death. – Leo Burnett

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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture. – Benjamin Franklin

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There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things. – Antonio Banderas

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movies

I wish my parents hadnt made me feel that how I looked was linked to how much they loved me. But I do also see how hard it must be to see your child pile on the pounds and trust theyll find their own way back to a healthy weight. – Arabella Weir

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Health is the vital principle of bliss, and exercise, of health. – James Thomson

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