I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of the Second World War when the United States dropped their atomic bombs in Hiroshima and… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I… — 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
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
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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 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
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are… — 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
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. — 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
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
It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine. — 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
