Top 126 Quotes by Isabel Allende

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

I never thought that I would come to live in the United States. I was not pursuing the American dream.

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

My mother didn't want me to be a feminist, a radical, political person, because she was scared. She wanted me to be protected and safe, but my life never was.

I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.

A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for a year, and I took care of her at home until she died in my arms in December of 1992.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Writing is a calling, not a choice.