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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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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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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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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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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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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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Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

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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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Isabel Allende

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

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

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

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I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Marilyn Monroe

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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.

Isabel Allende

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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.

Isabel Allende

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Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.

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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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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

Octavio Paz

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labour in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Martin Luther

An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.

Octavio Paz

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Martin Luther

Forgiveness is God's command.

Martin Luther

Martin Luther

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Martin Luther

I come from a place, with all due respect, who's never had a music star in hip-hop. So the odds is already against me.

Wale

I take a lot of pride in my live show and put more energy there than I do in the studio.

Wale

Wale

Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.

Wale

My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.

Wale

The ability to make somebody feel something: that's art. However you look at it, whether you're an author, a painter, a singer, a rapper, a spoken-word artist - art.

Wale

I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

Wale

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

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Paulo Coelho

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

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Marilyn Monroe

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

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

Marilyn Monroe

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Marilyn Monroe

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

Marilyn Monroe

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

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

Marilyn Monroe

Isabel Allende

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

Isabel Allende

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

Marilyn Monroe

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered.

Marilyn Monroe

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