Category: Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende peace

Isabel Allende | peace

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

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Isabel Allende Nature

Isabel Allende | nature

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

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Isabel Allende men

Isabel Allende | men

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.

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Isabel Allende marriage

Isabel Allende | marriage

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.

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Home Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende | home

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.

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freedom Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende | freedom

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.

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freedom Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende | freedom

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.

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Fear Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende | fear

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

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family Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende | family

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.

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experience Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende | experience

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn’t find a place for myself, for years and years.

Romantic getaways – kyoto, japan : cherry blossom serenity – one of the dreamiest destinations for couples. Deep tissue massage for sciatica. T shirt : "i play air guitar professionally".