Quote by Isabel Allende
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriar

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

Other quotes by Isabel Allende

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

Category:
Women
Read Quote

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldnt find a place for myself, for years and years. – Isabel Allende

Category:
Experience
Read Quote

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

Category:
Home
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. – Jean Paul

Category:
Age

Age acquires no value save through thought and discipline. – James Truslow Adams

Category:
Age

Twenty years a child; twenty years running wild; twenty years a mature man –and after that, praying. – Proverb

Category:
Age

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do todays job with yesterdays tools and yesterdays concepts. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

The most important thing is to stay positive. – Saku Koivu

Category:
positive

I gravitate toward women. – Liam Neeson

Category:
Women

A lot of women dont know how to love because theres deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons. – Lil Wayne

Category:
Love

If you want to know what God thinks of money, look at the people he gives it to. – Yiddish Proverb

Category:
Money