For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Melesio tweezed his facial hairs, then ran ether-soaked cotton over his face, so his skin was the texture of silk; he took… — 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
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are in a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“She asked herself a thousand times why she had hungered so desperately to belong body and soul to Joaquin Andieta when truth… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“You’re going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you’ve committed, see… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those… — 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 write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we… — 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
I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“The nightmares of the past were like dust that had settled along the way: the slightest gust sent them billowing up once… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware that before, death was is the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my house. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality… — 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
