Isabel Allende quotes - page 5

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. (Isabel Allende)
Writing is a calling, not a choice. View quote
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Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. View quote
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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. View quote
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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 we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. View quote
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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. View quote
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There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized. View quote
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In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. View quote
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I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same. (Isabel Allende)
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. View quote
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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 make it so. View quote
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When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart. View quote
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The poorest and most backward societies are always those that put women down. View quote
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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. View quote
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If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always white men who do that, and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment. View quote
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If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. View quote
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Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. View quote
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Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men. View quote
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The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing. (Isabel Allende)
Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent. View quote
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Twittering and blogging and all that is fine, but there is no idea of how to phrase something beautifully; how to use language to create an emotion. It's just passing information and sometimes very superficial information. View quote
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I felt an unrelenting restlessness. It was the first time I had ever experienced jealousy, and that emotion clung to my skin day and night like a dark stain, a contamination I could not shed; it became so unbearable that when finally I rid myself of it, I was freed forever of the desire to possess another person or the temptation ever to belong to anyone. View quote
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I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but what are you going to write about? No ghosts, no fear. I'm very happy that I had an unhappy and uncomfortable childhood. View quote
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