Chilean - Writer | August 2, 1942 -
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate.
Isabel Allende
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A memoir is my version of events. My perspective. I choose what to tell and what to omit. I choose the adjectives to describe a situation, and in that sense, I'm creating a form of fiction.
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Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
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I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.
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I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
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I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still ferociously independent, I still crave justice, and I fall madly in love easily.
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I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm.
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Empowering women means trusting them.
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I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans.
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Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.
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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.
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I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
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