Isabel Allende

“Happiness is slippery, it slithers away between your fingers, but problems are something you can hold on to, they’ve got handles, they’re…

— Isabel Allende

I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was…

— Isabel Allende

“Compartieron una alegre relación y no la llamaron amor.”

— Isabel Allende

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was…

— Isabel Allende

“Years later my Popo would laugh and tell people that if she hadn’t knocked him out in the first round, he’d still…

— Isabel Allende

“but even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.”

— 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

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

— Isabel Allende

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We…

— Isabel Allende

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.

— Isabel Allende

Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.

— 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

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care…

— Isabel Allende

“Ca sa devina camine, casele au nevoie de nasteri si de morti.”

— Isabel Allende

The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we…

— Isabel Allende

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of…

— Isabel Allende

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in…

— Isabel Allende

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

— Isabel Allende

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

— Isabel Allende

I never try to convey a message, I just want to tell a story. Why that story in particular? I have no…

— Isabel Allende

“nunca, no pedir nada, esforzarse por ser los primeros en todo y no confiar en nadie. Alma”

— Isabel Allende

If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and…

— Isabel Allende

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you…

— Isabel Allende

“She asked herself a thousand times why she had hungered so desperately to belong body and soul to Joaquin Andieta when truth…

— Isabel Allende

I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.

— Isabel Allende