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السنون تمضي بتكتم على رؤوس أصابعها ساخرةً بصوتٍ هامس وفجأةً ترعبنا في المرآة تضرب فجأة ركبنا أو تغمد خنجراً في ظهرنا الشيخوخة تهاجمنا يوماً بعد يوم لكنها تتكشف بوضوح مع إكتمال كل عقد

Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende

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My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
— Isabel Allende
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I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.
— Isabel Allende
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Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with my fiction; on the contrary, it helps enormously.
— Isabel Allende
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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.
— Isabel Allende
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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.
— Isabel Allende
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