A. J. Pierzynski Quotes


What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse. Isabel Allende Power 189
The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Isabel Allende Books 100
Write what should not be forgotten. Isabel Allende Forgotten 94
A man does what he can a woman does what a man cannot. Isabel Allende Men and women 84
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 83
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 79
Empowering women means trusting them. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 78
We only have what we give. Isabel Allende Charity 77
There is no death daughter. People die only when we forget them my mother explained shortly before she left me. If you can remember me I will be with you always. Isabel Allende Immortality 76
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 youre from or what you did before. Isabel Allende Identity 73
I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the U.S.A., which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The U.S. has a young population, and everything can change within a year. Isabel Allende Change 72
Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you. Isabel Allende Country 71
I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be. Isabel Allende Family 70
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Isabel Allende Art 69
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet. Isabel Allende Peace 63
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic. Isabel Allende Dream 63
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men. Isabel Allende Change 58
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul. Isabel Allende Solitude 51
What I need for my characters in my books [is] a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. Isabel Allende Art 49
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 Age 49
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 Adventurers 48
Accept the children the way we accept treeswith gratitude because they are a blessingbut do not have expectations or desires. You dont expect trees to change you love them as they are. Isabel Allende Children 44
I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 44
Barrabas came to us by sea, the child Clara wrote in her delicate calligraphy. Isabel Allende First 43
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 41
Music is a wind that blows away the years memories and fear that crouching animal I carry inside me. Isabel Allende Music 39
The fear is not real Dil Bahadur it is only in your mind like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality. Isabel Allende Mind 39
In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. Isabel Allende Children 39
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom. Isabel Allende Death 37
The calendar is a human invention time does not exist on the spiritual level. Isabel Allende Spiritual 36
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged. Isabel Allende Enriched 36
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 36
I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are mans thought. We should not speak without reason. Isabel Allende Thoughts 35
We live in an era where masses of people come and go across a hostile planet, desolate and violent. Refugees, emigrants, exiles, deportees. We are a tragic contingent. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 35
I'm interested in people who have to overcome obstacles, people who are not sheltered by the umbrella of the establishment, marginals. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 35
I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 34
Writing is my job. I don't think of it as art. Isabel Allende Art 34
Mediante la fotografshya y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condicin fugaz de mi existencia atrapar los momentos antes de que se desvanezcan despejar la confusin de mi pasado. Isabel Allende Photography 34
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 33
The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses. Isabel Allende Life 32
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 Men 31
My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief. Isabel Allende Grief 30
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it! Isabel Allende Confusion 30
Women have always been courageous… They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have been fearless in the fight for their rights. Isabel Allende Children 29
I was a lousy journalist. I could never be objective. Sometimes I invented the whole story. Isabel Allende Uncategorized 28
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 Family 27
Wishes and fears are illusions Dil Bahadur not realities. You must practice detachment. Isabel Allende Emotion 26
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 Uncategorized 26
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 Insult 25
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses. Isabel Allende Life 25

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