Isabel Allende Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)
Isabel Allende quotes and sayings page 8 (82 year old writer). Here's quote # 71 through 80 out of the 127 we have for her.
“In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced.”
“I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.”
“For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.”
“Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets.”
“Empowering women means trusting them.”
“I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.”
“I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep.”
“The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking.”
“A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.”
“At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.”
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