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Isabel Allende Quotes
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The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Many children fly like birds, guess other people’s dreams, and speak with ghosts, but... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence (Isabel Allende Quotes)
At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day’s gone and I don’t even know what I’ve done with the hours (Isabel Allende Quotes)
If we don’t begin by imagining the perfect society, how shall we create one? (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they’re fictional characters (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time (Isabel Allende Quotes)
You write a book and it’s like putting a message in a bottle and throwing it in the ocean. You don’t know if it will ever reach any shores. And there, you see, sometimes it falls in the hands of the right person (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes (Isabel Allende Quotes)
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don’t know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it (Isabel Allende Quotes)
My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it’s not strange that the main characters of my novels are females (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn’t touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman (Isabel Allende Quotes)
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe (Isabel Allende Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women (Isabel Allende Quotes)
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50 (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I had a very rough childhood and not a happy one and by age 15 I was an old person in many ways. I knew that I had to take care of myself, I um and I always did (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together (Isabel Allende Quotes)
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged (Isabel Allende Quotes)
When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible tendency to voice opinions no one wants to hear (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything (Isabel Allende Quotes)
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying (Isabel Allende Quotes)
After a few months without writing, months I’ve lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death (Isabel Allende Quotes)
He realized... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious (Isabel Allende Quotes)
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul (Isabel Allende Quotes)