I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I carry around a little stool to stand on when people want a picture with their cellular phones. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People are afraid of falling in love because they don't want to suffer. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want posterity, I don't want anybody to remember me in any way. I don't care about that because I'll be… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The source of my difficulties has always been the same: an inability to accept what to others seems natural, and an irresistible… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't want to die in pain or in an undignified way, I don't want any of the people I love to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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
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
I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.… — 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
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
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
