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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 can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."

"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."

"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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"No temptation can gravitate to a man unless there is that is his heart which is capable of responding to it."

"She danced a jig, she sung a song that took my heart away."

"Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved."

"That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments."
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