My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
Isabel Allende
If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for the privileged.
I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the grays in between, and remember the highlights and... →
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most... →
I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was in the seventies. I still lust for life, I am still... →
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.
Americans have a warrior's mentality, most of them. That's how this society was built. The fact that you own a gun and shoot to defend your... →
Every life of a character is within a context. If I write detached from a social and political background, my story looks like a soap opera where... →