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Isabel Allende Quotes
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Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses (Isabel Allende Quotes)
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 rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don’t want or they cannot feed (Isabel Allende Quotes)
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,’ my mother explained shortly before she left me. ‘If you can remember me, I will be with you always (Isabel Allende Quotes)
She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation (Isabel Allende Quotes)
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don’t give it away? Of having stories if I don’t tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don’t share it? I don’t intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I never said I wanted a ‘happy’ life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward (Isabel Allende Quotes)
So firm did Nivea’s determination become that she wrote in her diary that she would give up marriage in order to devote herself completely to the struggle for women’s suffrage. She was not aware that such a sacrifice would not be necessary, and that she would marry a man for love who would back her up in her political goals (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality (Isabel Allende Quotes)
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 and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I’m living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing (Isabel Allende Quotes)
It is absurd to imagine that any child will be able to earn a living, let alone contribute to resolving our world’s complex problems, without knowing how to read and write. My foundation supports the National Writing Project so that teachers can be more effective in their efforts to improve literacy for all students (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I’m very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There’s no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently (Isabel Allende Quotes)
In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it’s so powerful in many ways, and so creative (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no declaration of human rights, when feminism was not an issue, when children were working in factories. I mean, today’s world is a better place! (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I should say that I’m not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres (Isabel Allende Quotes)
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn’t be published. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories (Isabel Allende Quotes)
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 have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I’m over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people. (Isabel Allende Quotes)
We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome. (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too. (Isabel Allende Quotes)
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. (Isabel Allende Quotes)
One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. (Isabel Allende Quotes)
Americans have a warrior’s mentality, most of them. That’s how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. (Isabel Allende Quotes)
The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking (Isabel Allende Quotes)
That is the best part of writing: finding the hidden treasures, giving sparkle to worn out events, invigorating the tired soul with imagination, creating some kind of truth with many lies. (Isabel Allende Quotes)