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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Power, Fear, Abuse

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

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

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

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

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

Country, Inside, Roots

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

Life, Safe, Prefer

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

Empowering women means trusting them.
Isabel Allende

Women, Means, Trusting

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

Heart, Fate, Determines

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

The media could do a much better job, that's for sure, especially the media that targets women... Human rights? They couldn't care less!
Isabel Allende

Women, Care, Job

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 like Hillary Clinton a lot. I know her.
Isabel Allende

Her, Clinton, Hillary

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

Love, Time, Place

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel Allende

Sometimes, Whole, Story

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

Obstacles, Interested, Overcome

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Biography

Nationality: Chilean

Type: Writer

Born: August 2, 1942

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