We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

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We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

-- Isabel Allende

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They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.

-- Isabel Allende

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My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. –

-- Isabel Allende

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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.

-- Isabel Allende

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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. –

-- Isabel Allende

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