Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

#bring #educated #forsaken #i #i can

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

#better place #going #grandchildren #make #our

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#dry #i #my soul #soul #up

I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #life #my life #only #realized

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#belong #california #chile #exile #i

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

— Isabel Allende

#i #interested #obstacles #overcome #people

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

#circumstances #confusion #demons #i #i love

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#around #born #everyone #family #female

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#bad #did #everything #had #his

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

— Isabel Allende

#i #invented #journalist #lousy #never