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"It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness."
"Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way."
"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."
"The greater the wisdom, the greater the mind. The greater the courage, the greater the heart. The greater the love, the greater the soul."
"It is better to be a discipline than a follower."
"When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
Explore more quotes by Isabel Allende
"I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ill-fated adventures, though, it was not to get overwhelmed by minor inconveniences."
"She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation."
"This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, and desperate people who didn't have the resources to intimidate the United States."
"He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul."
"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."
"I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet."
"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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