"We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged."

Life, Quality, Want, World

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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."

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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."

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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."

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"Erotica is using a feather, pornography is using the whole chicken."

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"All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom."

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"I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic."

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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."

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"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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"What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse."

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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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"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person."

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"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain."

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