843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else’s.

The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn’t show up invited, eventually she just shows up.

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

Without science, industry, and technology, no progress is possible, and without music and art, there’s no soul,” he would maintain.

El espectro de la pobreza, como el de la soledad, rondaba siempre a los viejos.

Por un tiempo se extraviaron en una intimidad absoluta que confundieron con el amor.

Un hombre hace lo que puede, una mujer hace lo que el hombre no puede.

Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone.