World Quotes by Isabel Allende

What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.

— 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

Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

— Isabel Allende

I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?

— Isabel Allende

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

— Isabel Allende

It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.

— Isabel Allende

Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we…

— Isabel Allende

I have a foot here and a foot in some spirit world. There are many more layers to reality, and that permeates…

— 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

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 world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan…

— Isabel Allende

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

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

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

— Isabel Allende

As I travel through life, I gather experiences that lie imprinted on the deepest strata of memory, and there they ferment, are…

— 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

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

— 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

It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing…

— Isabel Allende

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I…

— 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

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

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

Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are…

— 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

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story…

— Isabel Allende

In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy…

— Isabel Allende

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something…

— Isabel Allende

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a…

— Isabel Allende

We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.

— Isabel Allende

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a…

— 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

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

I am very optimistic because I have seen the changes in my lifetime. I have seen the world change for the better.…

— 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

People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They…

— Isabel Allende

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

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

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having…

— Isabel Allende