"The poorest and most backward societies are always……" — Isabel Allende

"The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down."

— Isabel Allende

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212 Quotes by Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende has 212 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who…
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…
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…
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
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…
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…

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More Backward Quotes

This quote is filed under Backward Quotes, one of 439 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss… — Fred Armisen
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. — Jim Bakker
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
The only direction Obama has the economy moving is backward. — Bob Beauprez
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your… — Jeff Bezos
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not… — Michael N. Castle
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. — Winston Churchill
Silence moves faster when it's going backward. — Jean Cocteau
Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in… — Jean Cocteau
Art said he wanted to get more distance. I told him to hit it and run backward. — Ken Venturi

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