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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. "
Isabel Allende
Story
Be Different
Me
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" The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. "
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" I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. "
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" I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember. "
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" If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. "
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" I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. "
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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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" 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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" You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against. "
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" Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. "
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Life
" Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. "
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Healing
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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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" 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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Belong
" I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. "
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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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Women
World
" My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was. "
Isabel Allende
Life
Mother
My Life
" Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. "
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Explore
You
" I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. 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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Home
Think
Time
" I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream. "
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Thought
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American Dream
" All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes. "
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Mystery
Research
Believe
" The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less! "
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Media
Women
Care
" 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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Experience
" I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently. "
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" I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books. "
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Thoughts
History
Women
" 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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Whatever
" I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better. "
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" A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. "
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" I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too. "
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" Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders. "
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" I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. "
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" I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research. "
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