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" The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. "
Isabel Allende
Myself
I Am
Experience
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" I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy. "
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" Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much. "
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" 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. "
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" Writing is a calling, not a choice. "
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Choice
Writing
" Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. "
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" Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it. "
Isabel Allende
Name
Long
Change
" I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone. "
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Forget
Mother
Tomorrow
" I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. "
Isabel Allende
Family
People
Me
" Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family. "
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Family
Writer
Unfortunately
" I 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 Allende
World
Me
Family
" I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently. "
Isabel Allende
Nation
You
Strength
" I get thousands of letters, and they give me a feeling of how each book is perceived. Often I think I have written about a certain theme, but by reading the letters or reviews, I realise that everybody sees the book differently. "
Isabel Allende
Feeling
Me
Theme
" I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. "
Isabel Allende
Magic
Mystery
Nature
" A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. "
Isabel Allende
Invitation
Memoir
Privacy
" If I had to choose between a relative and a good story, I would take the story. "
Isabel Allende
Choose
Take
Story
" I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English. "
Isabel Allende
Write
Speak
Spanish
" Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your life is a very American way of thinking. "
Isabel Allende
Society
American
Gun
" I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. "
Isabel Allende
Similarities
Differences
People
" In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. "
Isabel Allende
Today
War
Women
" Kids are smart: don't underestimate their bull detector. Contemporary kids have access to a lot of information, so don't even try to fool them. I have never been more nervous about my research than when writing for young adults because they pick up every single error. "
Isabel Allende
Young
Writing
Smart
" In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth to this country. That is why it's so powerful in many ways, and so creative. "
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Youth
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" The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential. Because of Paula, I don't cling to anything anymore. Now I like to give much more than to receive. "
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Pain
Losing
Child
" I feel that telling my secrets makes me less vulnerable. What would make me vulnerable are the secrets I keep. "
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Telling
Secrets
Me
" Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. "
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Country
Landscape
People
" I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it. "
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Been
Years
Woman
" I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, where I have a comfortable couch, a lamp and two dogs to keep me warm. "
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Me
Listen
Comfortable
" My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather. "
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Life
Childhood
My Life
" I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and the dark moments. "
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Life
Remember
My Life
" Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. "
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Pain
Healing
Life
" You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against. "
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Me
Mother
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