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Deepa Gahlot
While the world hunkered down and prayed for relief from the pandemic, Isabel Allende wrote a slim book titled, The Soul of A Woman, which encapsulates her experiences and observations over seventy-eight years of life as an avowed feminist.
Allende was born in Peru, raised in Chile and now lives in the US. Her childhood and youth spent in Latin America turned her into a feminist in kindergarten, as she writes in the book, when her mother was abandoned by her husband and left to fend for herself and their three children. The culture there was–and remains to an extent–a blend of Catholic conservatism (no divorce, no abortion, till quite recently) and rampant machismo that pushed women firmly in an inferior position.
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