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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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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. – Isabel Allende

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Courage
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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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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel. – Theodore Bikel

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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it. – Alice Walker

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Death

The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. – Simon Cowell

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Death

The American people are not just being taxed to death theyre being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the lifes work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government. – J. D. Hayworth

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Death

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Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke

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I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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I think they quite like me when I work because Im one of the safer directors to back, because even if my films dont bring their costs in back home, once theyre shown outside of India they manage to cover the costs. – Satyajit Ray

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Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. – John Donne

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