"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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"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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"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."
-Isabel Allende
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"Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country."
-Isabel Allende
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"From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured."
-Samuel Richardson
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"I love women more than anything."
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"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."
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"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."
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"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."
-Samuel Richardson
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