"Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights."
-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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"If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so."
-Isabel Allende
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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."
-Isabel Allende
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"For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men."
-Isabel Allende
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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."
-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."
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"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
-Megawati Sukarnoputri
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"You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence."
-William Boetcker
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"I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage."
-Dame Edith Evans
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"There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge."
-Patrick Campbell
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"Resignation is the courage of Christian sorrow."
-Alexandre Vinet
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"There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage."
-Bill Hunter
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