Isabel Allende Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyHappyMeBornPersonWay

You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.

Joan Baez

LiveDieYouChooseNowDecide

Your thoughts and emotions are yours alone.

John Buchanan Robinson

AloneThoughtsEmotionsYoursYour

Part of my mission as an actor has been to define what an American is.

John Cho

AmericanMissionActorDefineBeen

I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the plaything of one small corner of the world.

Sukarno

LifeFearHateStruggleWorldSmall

I was a very good student. But I didn't have the latitude to study more. I was never allowed to do anything cross-disciplinary. Why can't an engineering student learn physics?

Shiv Nadar

GoodEngineeringLearnPhysicsWhy

People say you can't teach writing, but I think that's nonsense.

Tracy Kidder

PeopleWritingThinkYouSayTeach

On behalf of my native Japan, I am grateful to the culinary community and hospitality industry for working together to raise much-needed funds to aid the tsunami and earthquake victims.

Masaharu Morimoto

CommunityWorking TogetherTogether

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

Molly Ivins

PoliticsPersonOnlyWhoAmNoticed

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Joseph Hall

DeathBirthBordersGraveOur

But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

Dennis Muren

ChildrenGreatTogetherBookThought

There has to be a continuation of the communal experience of filmgoing.

Debra Granik

ExperienceContinuationCommunal

The masculine energy was about survival. The male was the hunter who risked his life and had to be in the fight-flight mode.

Deepak Chopra

LifeEnergySurvivalHunterWhoHis

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