Isabel Allende Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

  Isabel Allende

  Peace, War, Ubuntu

• I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap: during my meditation I invent stories to keep from being bored, and in therapy I invent stories to keep from boring the psychologist.

  Isabel Allende

  Practice, California, Bored

• I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes from blending cultures. There's no way that you can close the frontiers anywhere. The borders are there to be violated permanently.

  Isabel Allende

  Real, Optimistic, Thinking

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

• One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

  Isabel Allende

  Memories, Moving, Past

  Isabel Allende, John Rodden (1999). “Conversations with Isabel Allende”, Univ of Texas Pr

• Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don't know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It's just accepting that we don't know everything and everything is possible.

  Isabel Allende

  Magic Realism, Elements, Culture

  Interview with Priya George, bigthink.com. May 3, 2010.

• Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

  Isabel Allende

  Space, People, Age

  "The Lenny Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Collier Meyerson, www.lennyletter.com. January 15, 2016.

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