"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic."
-Isabel Allende
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"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.“
-Isabel Allende
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"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."
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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."
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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."
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"What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse."
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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 don't want or they cannot feed."
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