At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I thought of the long-ago afternoon when we first met, a boy and a girl in a crowded plaza. Even then he… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Sisters: talk to each other, be connected and informed, form women's circles, share your stories, work together, and take risks. Together we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
