Feminism Quotes by Isabel Allende

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

— Isabel Allende

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

— Isabel Allende

Empowering women means trusting them.

— Isabel Allende

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

— Isabel Allende

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

— Isabel Allende

The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down.

— Isabel Allende

Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered…

— Isabel Allende

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

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken…

— Isabel Allende

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win,…

— Isabel Allende

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.

— Isabel Allende

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

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our…

— Isabel Allende

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is…

— Isabel Allende

For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions…

— Isabel Allende

The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of…

— Isabel Allende

When I started working in a feminist feminine magazine all my life was about rebelling against male authority, which is authority in…

— Isabel Allende

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless…

— Isabel Allende

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all…

— Isabel Allende

I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and…

— Isabel Allende

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

For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have…

— Isabel Allende

“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

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that…

— Isabel Allende

I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no…

— Isabel Allende

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

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