Isabel Allende Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Mother, Loss

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

• Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Mother, Children

• The most savory grape, the one that produces the wines with best texture and aroma, the sweetest and most generous, doesn't grow in rich soil but in stony land; the plant, with a mother's obstinacy, overcomes obstacles to thrust its roots deep into the ground and take advantage of every drop of water. That, my grandmother explained to me, is how flavors are concentrated in the grape.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wine, Roots

• I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my mother, my dog, and frankly, I don't know if they even like me. But who cares? Loving them is my joy.

  Isabel Allende

  Love, Mother, Dog

• She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Wall, Fate

• 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

• She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly full of ripe fruit, running through the fields with Pedro Tercero, was she smiling and happy. Her mother said that that was the real Blanca, and that the other one, the one back in the city, was a Blanca in hibernation.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Running, Country

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

• The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer, who led me back through several incarnations. It wasn't easy to return to the present, however, since my friend hadn't reached that part of the course, but the experiment was well worth the effort because I discovered that in former lives I was not Genghis Khan, as my mother believes.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Believe, Effort

  Isabel Allende (2003). “My invented country: a memoir”, HarperPerennial

• In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Mother, Mean

  Interview with Marisel Mendoza, www.ventanalatina.co.uk. April 10, 2013.

• Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

  Isabel Allende

  Girl, Sexy, Mother

• When my daughter Paula died, I was in the deepest pain, and my mother said, "This kind of sorrow is like a long, narrow, dark channel. You have to walk this channel alone and be sure that there is light at the other ending. Just keep walking."

  Isabel Allende

  Daughter, Mother, Pain

  "sabel Allende: Despite Terrorism, the World Is a Better Place Now Than Ever Before". Interview with Michael Skafidas, www.huffingtonpost.com.

• It's such an intimate and profound relationship that it cannot be unconditional. I can only compare the intimacy of sex with the intimacy of the mother with a newborn baby. But with a newborn baby, it is unconditional.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Baby, Sex

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

• The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New York. We were talking about our mothers, and I was telling her how old my mother was, and she was telling me about her mother. Her mother was Jewish, and she said that she was in a retirement home and that she had had a friend for 40 years that was a Japanese gardener. This person had been very important in my friend's upbringing.

  Isabel Allende

  Mother, Retirement, New York

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

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