Top 126 Quotes by Isabel Allende

About Isabel Allende

These are some quotes by Chilean author Isabel Allende Writer, who was born on August 2, 1942.

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.

Isabel Allende

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

Isabel Allende

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

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

Isabel Allende

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.

Isabel Allende

I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. 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.

Isabel Allende

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

Isabel Allende

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.

Isabel Allende

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much.

Isabel Allende

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.

I think that any writer who is commercial, who sells a lot of books, has to face criticism. Because the more hermetic and the more difficult your book is, supposedly it's better.

Isabel Allende

A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.

Isabel Allende

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