Isabel Allende Quotes

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

Peace, Women, Together

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.
Isabel Allende

Change, Women, Men

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 social issues, freedom.
Isabel Allende

Freedom, Death, End

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

Dreams, Nature, Power

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 I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
Isabel Allende

Age, Family, End

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

Marriage, Women, Today

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 mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Isabel Allende

Heart, Books, Ask

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

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

Power, Fear, Abuse

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, Everybody, Quality

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

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

Women, Fight, Children

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

Country, Inside, Roots

Empowering women means trusting them.
Isabel Allende

Women, Means, Trusting

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

Life, Safe, Prefer

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.
Isabel Allende

Try, Wait, Tell

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 love it!
Isabel Allende

Love, Reality, Understand

Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
Isabel Allende

Women, Less, Labor

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, Work, Family

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
Isabel Allende

Heart, Fate, Determines

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

Change, Home, Everything

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.
Isabel Allende

Family, Person, Writer

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.
Isabel Allende

Change, Woman, Realized

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
Isabel Allende

Writing, Learned

I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
Isabel Allende

Freedom, Write, Stronger

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Biography

Nationality: Chilean

Type: Writer

Born: August 2, 1942

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