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World Quotes by Isabel Allende
- If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
- For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and…
- I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five…
- We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
- 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…
- Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
- I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different…
- Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I…
- I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong…
- I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?
- Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us…
- My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a…
- They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
- Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew,…
- It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like…
- Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
- As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are transformed, and sometimes…
- She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
- We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
- ​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is…
- It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.
- The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach