"There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain."
"Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry."
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Source: Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.172, Simon and Schuster
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