I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the children that are never in history books.
Isabel AllendeI was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.
Isabel AllendeFeminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
Isabel Allende