The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.
Isabel AllendePhotographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.
Isabel AllendeIn my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
Isabel AllendeI have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.
Isabel AllendeI was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
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