Quote by Isabel Allende
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, an

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. – 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 am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. – Isabel Allende

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Home
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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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Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic. – Tippi Hedren

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Fear

Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. – Natan Sharansky

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Fear

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. Im not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted. – Harlan Coben

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Fear

One of the darkest, deepest shames so many of us mothers feel nowadays is our fear that we are Bad Mothers, that we are failing our children and falling far short of our own ideals. – Ayelet Waldman

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Fear

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The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery. – Thomas Jefferson

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Government

The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Ego

What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesnt really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job. – Diane Kruger

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Money

Thats the motivation of an artist – to seek attention of some kind. – James Taylor

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Art