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Isabel Allende Quotes

Isabel Allende quotes about happy

Chilean Writer August 2, 1942

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She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation. Isabel Allende
It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...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 out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us. But remember that bold women are like... Isabel Allende
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy. Isabel Allende
She had been born to cradle other people's children, wear their hand-me-down clothing, eat their leftovers, live on borrowed happiness and grief, grow old beneath other people's roofs, die one day in her miserable little room in the far courtyard in a bed that did not belong to her, and be buried in a common grave in the public cemetery. Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende quote: "My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle..."
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende quote: "Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and..."
Happiness is pure kitch; we come into the world to suffer and learn. Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende quote: "As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy..."
As Sancho said, money does not buy happiness but it does buy nearly everything else. Isabel Allende
We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning. Isabel Allende
Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.... Isabel Allende

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