Isabel Allende Quotes

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• I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person…
• I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.
• If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.
• What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
• For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and…
• I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
• I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five…
• Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need…
• All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and…
• I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
• We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
• Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight…
• Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the…
• Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children…
• Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
• I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
• I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I…
• My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
• Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
• Empowering women means trusting them.

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