Quote

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

Isabel Allende

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Isabel Allende
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 2
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
City of the Kings
Isabel Allende Llona
Stones
Women
Trips
Twice
Stone
Loneliness

More quotes by Isabel Allende

Image
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.
Isabel Allende
Image
I've been a story-teller all my life but I realized it only recently.
Isabel Allende
Image
I would like to be with my husband together sitting somewhere in a lonely place in the woods and take something, maybe some pills or something, a magic potion and die together.
Isabel Allende
Image
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
Image
The fact people think that when you sell a lot of books you are not a serious writer is a great insult to the readership. I get a little angry when people try to say such a thing.
Isabel Allende
Image
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.
Isabel Allende
Image
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
Image
Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.
Isabel Allende
Image
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
Isabel Allende
Image
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
Isabel Allende
Image
She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.
Isabel Allende
Image
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
Isabel Allende
Image
At my age days dissolve like salt in water the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the hours.
Isabel Allende
Image
I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you’re from or what you did before.
Isabel Allende
Image
I'm always following the characters and I'm always interested in what happens to them, but what happens to them is conditioned by the circumstances in which they live.
Isabel Allende
Image
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.
Isabel Allende
Image
You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.
Isabel Allende
Image
A book is not an end in itself it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a space of loneliness and obscurity - and sometimes it is a way of winning other people to our causes.
Isabel Allende
Image
Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.
Isabel Allende
Image
As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done I have to look ahead.
Isabel Allende