Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende; born 2 August 1942) is a Chilean-American writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the "magic realist" tradition, is famous for novels such as The House of the Spiritsand City of the Beasts, which have been commercially successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author". In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the...
NationalityChilean
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth2 August 1942
CityLima, Peru
CountryChile
The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country.
The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air.
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.
Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.
I come from the so-called Third World (what is the Second)?
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.