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
Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don’t… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life… — 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
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief,… — 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
When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“His wife...always dressed in mourning for the children who died in infancy and squeezed breathless by the pressure of her corset, her… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world's… — 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
I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you… — 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
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
“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 Image
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 Image
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
