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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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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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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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Death
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When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know its going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly. – John Hodgman

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Death

There is nothing glamorous about death. – Roger Moore

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Death

For the wretched one night is like a thousand for someone faring well death is just one more night. – Sophocles

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Death

Sleep is lovely, death is better still, not to have been born is of course the miracle. – Heinrich Heine

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Death

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