Isabel Allende Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Memories, Latin

  Isabel Allende (1989). “Eva Luna”, Bantam

• In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.

  Isabel Allende

  Car, House, Alarms

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

• Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The battles, the things achieved, the laws, but where are the people, the families? What happens inside the houses, inside the minds and the hearts? That's what I'm interested in.

  Isabel Allende

  Heart, Men, Law

  "Author Isabel Allende". "Tell Tavis" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 12, 2010.

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