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Isabel Allende on her life as a refugee, the decline of the West and war being a male construct

Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy

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Is It the Life You Wish Your Mother Had?

I was just a weird kid that was very angry at the world, and specially at male authority. Because i saw my mother pretty much like a victim. She had three babies, no husbandn money, completely dependent on her father and her older brother who didn't have any any cash to buy an ice cream for the kids. So she, she always felt like a charity case. And is that why you became a feminist from the age of five? I think you famously served yes, i don't think we knew the word at that time. Imagined it was the forties in chile, in a catholic, conservative, patriarchal family and society.

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