Quotes by : Isabel Allende

I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death....

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the....

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and....

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

You are my angel and my damnation in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent....

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that....

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a....

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full....

How accommodating love is it forgives everything.