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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. "
Isabel Allende
Management
Change
Women
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" Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men. "
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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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" From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there. "
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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
Percent
" We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. "
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Amazing
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" If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. "
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Write
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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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" A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. "
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Memoir
Privacy
" My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. "
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Grief
Writing
" 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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" My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English. "
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Because
Desk
" Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information. "
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Create
Sometimes
" Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics. "
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Military
America
Banana
" Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. "
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Interesting
Nice
People
" 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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Today
War
Women
" I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. "
Isabel Allende
Write
Speak
Spanish
" One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. "
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Time
Culture
City
" 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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Planet
Will
Use
" I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was a hard time. "
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Money
Time
Political
" I try to write the kind of books I like to read. "
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Books
Try
Write
" I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. "
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People
Me
" I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. "
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Differences
People
" Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. "
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Fate
Us
" 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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Me
Country
Leave
" If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand. "
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" Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders. "
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Leaders
Today
" 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
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" I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992. "
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Daughter
Home
She
" I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing. "
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Things
Years
Writing
" I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone. "
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Forget
Mother
Tomorrow