Isabel Allende

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #life #prefer #safe #want

I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#chores #expected #family #had #i

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. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#american #american citizen #bush #change #citizen

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#drives #fate #heart #our #us

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. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#critical #energy #feminine #management #men

Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #job #think #writing

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#been #century #children #courageous #fearless

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

— Isabel Allende

#today #tomorrow #women

Empowering women means trusting them. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#means #them #trusting #women

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

— Isabel Allende

#assets #labor #less #own #percent