The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

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Feel Live Young Everything

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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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Power Impunity Abuse Fear

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It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

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Giving Connect World Divine

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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

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Memoir Version Perspective Omit

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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

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Story Haunt Writing Themes

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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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Mystery Coincidences Emotion Dream

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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

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Heart Drives Characters Passionate

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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 I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

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Ancient times World Patriarchal Catholic

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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 rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

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Feminism Dated Privileged Daughter

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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

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Women Working together Informed Educated

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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

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World Preserved Quality Enriched

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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

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Women Two-third Labor Percent

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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 we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

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Real change Feminine Energy Management

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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

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Women Education Work Income

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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

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Fiction Author Chaos Chronological order

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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 but emotionally we are all the same.

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Traveled World Amazes Communicate

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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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Uneventful Safe life Prefer Adventurous

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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

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Roots Landscape Country People

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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

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Tend Similarities Differences

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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

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Fact Writer Experience Root

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I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

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Living Mine Chile Belong

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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.

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Conflict War Poverty Women

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Empowering Women Trusting

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Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

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Today's Girls Tomorrow's Leaders

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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 make it so.

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World Better Place Grandchildren

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I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

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Destroy Nuclear Cataclysm Capacity

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I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

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Convey Story Particular Idea

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I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

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Every morning Early Sky Red

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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 don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

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Give Experience Knowledge Talent

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If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

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Change Story Colour Create

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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

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Happier Love Adore Husband

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The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

Isabel Allende

A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.

Isabel Allende

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Isabel Allende

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 I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Isabel Allende

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 rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

Isabel Allende

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

Isabel Allende

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 we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.

Isabel Allende

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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 but emotionally we are all the same.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

Isabel Allende

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.

Isabel Allende

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no idea, but I have learned to surrender to the muse. I become obsessed with a theme or with certain stories; they haunt me for years, and finally, I write them.

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

Isabel Allende

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

Isabel Allende

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