The most poor and backward areas in the world are those in which women are subjugated and exploited. Improving the situation of the woman improves the family, the community, and by extension the whole country. Isabel Allende More Quotes by Isabel Allende More Quotes From Isabel Allende What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing. Isabel Allende writing sometimes world It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this. Isabel Allende going-away silence thinking In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week. Isabel Allende alarms car house I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the goddess religions, for family and human bonding. All that has been lost in this industrial era. People are in desperate need of those things. I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it. Isabel Allende people past thinking Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen. Isabel Allende caverns realizing black I do not put myself in a box and say, for instance, I'm writing post-colonial literature. I don't know what I'm writing. That's the business of professors and critics. My job is to tell a story, and that's it. Isabel Allende stories writing jobs And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful. Isabel Allende benefits important successful 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 warrior gun thinking My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places. Isabel Allende stories memories book The world starts to exist, for Americans, when we are in conflict with a place. And then all of a sudden, Afghanistan pops up on the TV screen and it becomes a place. And it exists for three weeks and then it disappears into thin air. Isabel Allende three air world The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes. Isabel Allende unjust crime world In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity. Isabel Allende diversity moving thinking I think that my life changed at 50. Many things happened. Menopause, the end of youth and my daughter died that year after being a whole year in a coma. So I think that I changed and I became an elder at 50. Isabel Allende life-changing daughter thinking The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing Isabel Allende connections writing giving One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible. Isabel Allende memories past moving I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. Isabel Allende feminist thinking I think the spirit survives when we die, and nothing is wasted in nature and just as our material body disintegrates and becomes something else in the soil. The spirit becomes something else, reunites with a spiritual force that is out there in the universe. Not as individuals but as part of this spirituality. Isabel Allende body spiritual thinking The hardest thing of love is to let go. Isabel Allende hardest letting-go love-is 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 Allende grateful girl children In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe. Isabel Allende daughter mother mean
