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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

Isabel Allende
Country, Roots, People

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
Country, Children, Giving

The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.

Isabel Allende
Country, Community, World
Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.

Isabel Allende
Country, Home, Tree
Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.470, Simon and Schuster

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative.

Isabel Allende
Country, Powerful, Giving
Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

Isabel Allende
Mother, Running, Country
Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

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