"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
"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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Source: Conversation with Isabel Allende. Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.feminist.com.
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