Isabel Allende - I was not supposed to be in a...

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

Chilean Writer

Born: Aug 2, 1942

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