843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

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

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

sex is the instrument and love the music ...

My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.

In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.