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I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in…

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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…
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken…
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it…
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions…
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that…
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate…
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,…
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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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I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity,… — Anthony Bourdain
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in… — Isabel Allende
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do… — Sara Paretsky
When I came to Ole Miss, everyone expected me to bring the program back to its glory days. I didn't want to… — Eli Manning
I am ever mindful of the legacy of my grandfather, the founder of this Kingdom, who had said to me that he… — King Hussein I
In New York, after that famous home run, they expected me to be up there every year. That homer raised me to… — Bobby Thomson
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expected me to… — Nancy Kerrigan
I was afraid of not living up to what people expected me to be. — Brigitte Bardot
Many seventh graders I know in Illinois, as well as around the Nation, are studying the Constitution. I was pretty impressed with… — Melissa Bean
My mom and I used to listen to records, read, and take train rides across the country in the summer. It was… — Martha Plimpton
I'm really lucky I'm still around. Everybody expected me to die next... But it was always someone else instead of me. — Dee Dee Ramone
My father, who grew up picking olives on the Greek island of Lesbos, was a doctor. So my family expected me to… — Peter Diamandis

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