Isabel Allende Quotes

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

Isabel Allende

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: chilean
  • Birth: August 2, 1942

Topics

WomenWorldLaborOwnPercentThan

If you think you can do it, you can.

John Burroughs

MotivationalYou Can Do ItThinkYou

I think it's funny that nobody wants to be liked by Washington. All the politicians go, 'I don't like Washington. They don't like me.' I always find it funny that people are trying to distance themselves from Washington as much as they can, even though they're all in Washington.

Maz Jobrani

FunnyPeopleMeThinkTryingFind

When I first started out, I got criticism for the way I looked. I think, now, it's a good thing because, why would you want to look like everyone else?

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

GoodThinkCriticismYouLookWant

One of the first times that I went into a book store and saw a bunch of my books, my impulse was to put them all under my coat and run away so that no one else could see them, even though, of course, I wanted everyone to see them.

Stacey D'Erasmo

BookRunFirstEveryoneSeeSaw

My mom actually would not allow me to watch 'Dawson's Creek!'

Torrey DeVitto

MeMomCreekWatchWouldAllow

The rule of law in place of force, always basic to my thinking, now takes on a new relevance in a world where, if war is to go, only law can replace it.

Roger Nash Baldwin

WarLawWorldThinkingPlaceNew

If you compare Everest photographs in 1953 with its current state, things are melting. I imagine if I were a golfer in Indiana, I'd be hard-pressed to believe in climate change because nothing's going on there. But when you're up in the mountains and seeing the glaciers melt away, it's an obvious physical manifestation of a warming planet.

Conrad Anker

ChangeMountainsBelieveYouSeeing

When the 'Fight Club' movie was going into production, I quit my job so I could write full-time.

Chuck Palahniuk

JobFightQuitWriteClubGoing

We have ended hunger, but now we have to end famine.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

EndNowHungerFamineEnded

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

Todd McFarlane

LifeTimeFashionLearnMy Life

Being a motion picture actress is the pitch of ecstasy.

Norma Shearer

PictureMotionBeingActressEcstasy

I hate big government; I hate being told what to do on a personal basis.

Nigel Farage

HateGovernmentPersonalBigBeing

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