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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

I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place a story in New Orleans. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#fiction #first #first time #historical #historical fiction

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

If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#dry #i #my soul #soul #up

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#downs #great #joys #life #losses

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