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Isabel Allende Novelist
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"I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy."

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Francis Bacon Philosopher, Statesman
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"What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?"

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"I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer."

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