Mother Quotes by Isabel Allende

It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the…

— 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

My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have…

— Isabel Allende

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you…

— Isabel Allende

“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother,…

— Isabel Allende

I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't…

— Isabel Allende

You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought…

— Isabel Allende

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

— Isabel Allende

The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer,…

— Isabel Allende

The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets…

— 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

My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back…

— Isabel Allende

When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a…

— Isabel Allende

The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow…

— 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

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe…

— Isabel Allende

She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance,…

— Isabel Allende

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now,…

— Isabel Allende

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things…

— Isabel Allende