"On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had……" — Isabel Allende
"On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States."
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212 Quotes by Isabel Allende
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
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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…
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then…
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,…
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