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Isabel Allende (Writer)

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 life

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 war

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

— Isabel Allende love

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

— Isabel Allende fear

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

— Isabel Allende time

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

— Isabel Allende life

Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.

— Isabel Allende people

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

— Isabel Allende love

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

— Isabel Allende women

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

— Isabel Allende life

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments.

— Isabel Allende life

I can't control life for my grandchildren, so how could I control a story? Sometimes I try to force something, and after working and working on that chapter, I realise that I am swimming against the current. I will never get there. So I have to let go of whatever previous idea I had about it and let the characters decide.

— Isabel Allende life

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 for their rights.

— Isabel Allende fear

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.

— Isabel Allende change

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

— Isabel Allende life

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals.

— Isabel Allende people

I confess that I am a messy, disorganized and impatient reader: if the book doesn't grab me in the first 40 pages, I abandon it. I have piles of half-read books waiting for me to get acute hepatitis or some other serious condition that would force me to rest so that I could read more.

— Isabel Allende books

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 life

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 education

I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.

— Isabel Allende people

I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.

— Isabel Allende love

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

— Isabel Allende romance

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

— Isabel Allende women

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.

— Isabel Allende dreams

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

— Isabel Allende life

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 dont even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

— Isabel Allende life

The mind is so much more interesting than the body.

— Isabel Allende mind

You can’t find someone who doesn’t want to be found.

— Isabel Allende want

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

— Isabel Allende friendship

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