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Isabel Allende has 214 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken…
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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…
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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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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions…
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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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…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate…
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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,…
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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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…
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Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
— Ambrose Bierce
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(Whispered to a novice while standing in front of the convent library) Oh! I would have been sorry to have read all…
— Therese of Lisieux
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
— Victor Hugo
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The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time,…
— Victor Hugo
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry…
— Lars von Trier
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The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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So far as I know, there were no pains taken to preserve secrecy on this subject; that is, I saw no attempt…
— Maria Monk
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I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.
— Sharon Horgan
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A pale sun poked impudent marmalade fingers through the grizzled lattice glass, and sent the shadows scurrying, like convent girls menaced by…
— Vivian Stanshall
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The best convent for a woman is the seclusion of her own home. There she may find her vocation and fight her…
— Elizabeth Prentiss
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My heart can be pasture for deer and a convent for monks, a temple for idols and a Kaaba for the pilgrims.…
— Ibn Arabi
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My nun, which is how I think of her, was the most profound witness for God's love I've ever encountered in this…
— Cathleen Falsani
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