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Most Quotes by Isabel Allende
- What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
- 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…
- I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I…
- 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.
- It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to…
- She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the…
- At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back…
- If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because in looking so hard for…
- The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil…
- She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to…
- The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.
- One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a…
- A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and…
- The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am…
- My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather,…
- I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster