Quote

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

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
Strength
Inside
Unsuspected
Life
Emerges
Reserve
Reserves
Puts
Test
Tests

More quotes by Isabel Allende

Image
The success occurs in a place outside of me, and doesn't touch me on an intimate level. I live in my own skin, I have not changed greatly, I remain the same woman.
Isabel Allende
Image
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
Image
Only in romance novels or in thrillers people live outside of a social and political context.
Isabel Allende
Image
Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape....For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket life would be a very dark and narrow place.
Isabel Allende
Image
There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.
Isabel Allende
Image
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
Isabel Allende
Image
I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.
Isabel Allende
Image
Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.
Isabel Allende
Image
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.
Isabel Allende
Image
When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.
Isabel Allende
Image
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
Image
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
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
Sex is the instrument and love the music.
Isabel Allende
Image
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
Image
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story.
Isabel Allende
Image
I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I still feel 50, I'm over 70 and I understand that I am preparing for later.
Isabel Allende
Image
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
Isabel Allende
Image
I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.
Isabel Allende
Image
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.
Isabel Allende