The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing Isabel Allende More Quotes by Isabel Allende More Quotes From Isabel Allende If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. Isabel Allende dry-up soul writing I need to remember to overcome. Isabel Allende overcoming remember needs I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it! Isabel Allende confusion writing reality Although women do two-thirds of the world's labor, they own less than one percent of the world's assets. Isabel Allende assets two world Empowering women means trusting them. Isabel Allende empowering-women empowering mean From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there. Isabel Allende space pressure writing Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. Isabel Allende giving country children Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Isabel Allende motivation nice inspiration Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion. Isabel Allende diversity brotherhood circles I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one. Isabel Allende adventurous safe want Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Isabel Allende collaboration talent giving Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars. Isabel Allende scar proud world We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning. Isabel Allende ethics action world There is room in the human heart for all the divinities. Isabel Allende divinity heart rooms You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found. Isabel Allende found want life She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it was impossible to believe that a love of such magnitude could have stunned only her. The most elementary logic and justice indicated that somewhere in the city he was suffering the same delicious torment. Isabel Allende cities love believe My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's. Isabel Allende flaws worst secret Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows. Isabel Allende humble wise men What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. Isabel Allende abuse-of-power impunity abuse Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives. Isabel Allende select memories fiction