Isabel Allende Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

WorkFamilyEducationWomenChildren

The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.

Joe Gebbia

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And you know, we did it as an independent film, and we weren't expecting it to be on television, and Lifetime ended up buying it. And the viewers responded intensely to that film.

Jenna Elfman

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Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

John Lewis

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I get that there is no one quite like me, nor should there be anybody quite like anybody else in any field. I've always said, 'Don't be the next anyone; be the first you.'

Mauro Ranallo

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The standard of 'affordable' housing is that which costs roughly 30 percent or less of a family's income. Because of rising housing costs and stagnant wages, slightly more than half of all poor renting families in the country spend more than 50 percent of their income on housing costs, and at least one in four spends more than 70 percent.

Matthew Desmond

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Men of polite learning and a liberal education.

Matthew Henry

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For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Ross Perot, Jr.

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I believe that prayer is our powerful contact with the greatest force in the universe.

Loretta Young

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I love tea.

Ashley Madekwe

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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and selling poems to poetry and art festivals; I was involved in school plays; I wrote essays, so there was no definite moment when I said, 'Now I'm a writer.' I've always been a writer.

Wole Soyinka

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Money has power. And so withholding money has power too, especially when a bunch of people do it together.

Shane Claiborne

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I come from a good family. I come from a faith-based family.

Ryan Merriman

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