I am very grateful for the success, because it has given me the freedom to write without pressure, in my own way, and has enabled me to maintain my family and educate my children and grandchildren, as well as to create a Foundation to empower women and girls.
Isabel AllendeAt my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
Isabel AllendeWe want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
Isabel AllendeYoung women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.
Isabel Allende