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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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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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Isabel Allende
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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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Other Quotes from
Death
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People living deeply have no fear of death. – Anaïs Nin, Diary, 1967

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Death

There is no such thing as an ugly language. Today I hear every language as if it were the only one, and when I hear of one that is dying, it overwhelms me as though it were the death of the earth. – Elias Canetti

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Death

My death will be caused by morphine, which I have deliberately taken with suicidal intent. – Alex Campbell

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Death

Depakote also has a really bad side effect, which is death. – Margot Kidder

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Death

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Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise. – Cyril Connolly

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Fear

Theres not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team. – Bryan Adams

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Success

There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes. – Proverb

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Life

Its tempting to say the Ph.D. didnt have an effect, but its not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way. – Robert B. Parker

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Learning