"I don't think I would be a writer……" — Isabel Allende
"I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be."
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212 Quotes by Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende has 212 quotes on this site.
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I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
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I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
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If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who…
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What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
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For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women…
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I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No…
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
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All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for…
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Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…
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I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No…
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I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am…
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Breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Like Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay and others, Mexico believes that we should evaluate internationally agreed upon policies and…
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Salmon farming-the placement of large metal or mesh net cages in the ocean to grow fish-was pioneered in Norway in…
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Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by…
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I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always…
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