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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age."
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"The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does."
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"It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable."
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"Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline."
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"It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution."
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"Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both."
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"By Time and Age full many things are taught."
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"To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age."
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"Books that have become classics - books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal - always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay."
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"Old age is, so to speak, the sanctuary of ills: they all take refuge in it."
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