Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actions. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm open to love, and I think that I will fall in love with a wonderful man. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is common knowledge that no man that women flock to boasts of his conquests. Those who do, lie. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I love my dog unconditionally, but never the man I'm sleeping with. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves,… — 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
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
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
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In my book tours I get to meet an audience every night. And I see that there are mostly young people, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look good in their memoirs and have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
So firm did Nivea's determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Women age more in company because they have more relationships. Men have buddies. They have acquaintances, they have comrades. Friends as women… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're the daughters of… — 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
