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Isabel Allende
Chilean
Writer
Born:
Aug 2
,
1942
Life
Me
People
Women
World
You
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I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
Isabel Allende
Research
Books
About
Written
Mostly
Read
Subject
Chile
Many
Therefore
The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.
Isabel Allende
Experience
Losing
Pain
Only
Throw
Excess
Had
Cleansing
Baggage
Overboard
Child
Essential
Keep
I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things that I remember.
Isabel Allende
Time
Me
Remember
Mother
Nothing
Says
Horrible
Childhood
Happened
Ever
Things
You couldn't find two people more different than my mother and I. There are a thousand things about me that she fought against.
Isabel Allende
Me
You
People
Mother
Thousand
Find
About
More
She
Than
Different
Against
Fought
Things
Two
Two People
I speak English and Spanish. I write in Spanish; my books are published in English.
Isabel Allende
Speak
Books
Write
Spanish
English
Published
Everything I write has to be connected to my life. One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women.
Isabel Allende
Life
Freedom
Women
Writing
My Life
Everything
One Of The Things
Write
Always
Up
Connected
Search
Things
If I can write it, I can cope. And I've been writing many books, but in every book, I try to explore something in my own soul that I need to solve, I need to understand.
Isabel Allende
Soul
Book
Writing
Try
Own
Every
Books
Solve
Something
My Own
Write
Understand
Been
Explore
Many
Cope
Need
My father left when I was three, and I have no memory of him. The most significant male figures in my life were my grandfather, in whose house I lived during the first 10 years of my childhood, and later my stepfather.
Isabel Allende
Life
Memory
Father
Three
My Life
First
Later
Significant
No Memory
Stepfather
Most
House
Him
Were
Male
Years
Left
Childhood
Grandfather
Figures
Lived
Whose
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