Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.
Tom Allen
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... →
Isabel Allende
Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her... →
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to... →
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... →
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... →
Unfortunately for my family, they have a writer in the family.
I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me... →
Dorothy Allison
If somebody gave you several thousand dollars and nothin' to do but write, would you be a writer then? Would you tell your stories, your... →
Well, I've had to deal with everything in my life... leavin' the family, learnin' what not and what to do.
Luther Allison