#om

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#change #i #like #only #realized

No, I don't belong to a retirement community. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#community #i #retirement

For purposes of action nothing is more useful than narrowness of thought combined with energy of will. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#combined #energy #more #narrowness #nothing

I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #invented #journalist #lousy #never

I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#i #interested #obstacles #overcome #people

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#grief #happy #moments #struggle #writing

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

#away #being #comes #cut #experience

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. ↗

— Mose Allison

#decided #finally #going #gonna #i

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#care #i #i think #less #meet

My demons and I are not compatible. We never have been and never will be. ↗

— GG Allin

#compatible #demons #i #never #will