“A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“It bothers them that instead of taking on the role of abandoned lover, I have become a happy wife. They relish seeing strong women like you and me humiliated. They cannot forgive us that we triumphed where so many others fail...Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is out of balance, in favor of men. That is why they work so hard to mistreat and destroy us.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“من لم يعان الجوع ليس له الحق في إطلاق الأحكام”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“How accommodating love is; it forgives everything.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“هناك أيام سعيدة وأيام حزينة. وكل شخص هو سيد صمته”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“النساء القويات يعرّضن للخطر توازن العالم الذي يُفضّلُ الرجال ، لهذا يسعون إلى مضايقتهن وتدميرهن”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“آه كم هي عنيدة الذاكرة وذاكرتي لا تتركني بسلام ، تملأ مخيلتي بصور ، بكلمات ، بألم وحب”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“Los hombres hacen lo que pueden, las mujeres hacen lo que los hombres no pueden.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“الرجل يفعل ما يستطيعه, والمرأة تفعل ما لا يستطيعه الرجل”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“ليس هناك من يروقه قراءة مئات الصفحات ليجد أن القصة لا تنتهي نهاية واضحة”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“في هذه ِ الحَيَاة لا نتوجّه إلى أي ّ مَكَان, مَهمْا أسْرعنا, بَل ْ نمضي, خُطْوَة ف خُطْوَة, نَحو المَوْت .”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“لا أجد في نفسي عيوبًا سوى كوني امرأة ، وهذه تبدو جريمة كافية . فنحن المتهمات بشبق الرجال . ولكن ، أليست الخطيئة من مسؤولية من يرتكبها ؟ فلماذا عليّ أن أدفع ثمن خطايا الآخرين ؟”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“the heart is like a box; if it is filled with rubbish, there is no space for other things.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“الرِجَال هُم ْ مثل الكِلاب والخُيول, لابد ّ مِن ْ تَرْويضهم .”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“كيف هو الموت؟ وماذا يوجد في الجانب الآخر؟ أهو ليل وصمت فحسب؟”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“I felt the strength of his desire, his hands at my waist, at the back of my neck, in my hair, his lips on my face and neck; I caught his young man’s scent, heard his voice murmuring my name, and I felt blessed. How could I in less than a minute go from the sadness of having been abandoned to the joy of feeling loved?”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“Inés Suárez (1507-1580), española, nacida en Plasencia, viajó al Nuevo Mundo en 1537 y participó en la conquista de Chile y la fundación de la ciudad de Santiago. Tuvo gran influencia política y poder económico. Las hazañas de Inés Suárez, mencionadas por los cronistas de su época, fueron casi olvidadas por los historiadores durante más de cuatrocientos años.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“حتى أشد الرجال استقامة وبسالة يخيبون أملنا نحن النساء عادة”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“I must not linger on details, daughter, because if we dally, this account may be left unfinished, and no one wants to read hundreds of quartos only to find that the story has no clear ending.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“but even the most valiant and honorable men sometimes fail their women.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“Supongo que en el transcurso de la vida embellecemos algunos recuerdos y procuramos olvidar otros.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“كم هو ممتع الحب الذي يغفر كل شيء”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“عدم الخوف من الموت، يمنح مزيداً من الحياة”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“Comprobaréis, señora, que los conquistadores carecen de vergüenza: llegan como mendigos, se comportan como ladrones y se creen señores.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
“The strong aroma of meat, fried onion, cumin, and baked dough soaked into my skin so deeply that I have never lost it. I will die smelling like an empanada.”
― Isabel Allende, quote from Inés of My Soul
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“To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition. —SAMUEL JOHNSON”
― C.J. Box, quote from Cold Wind
“You say: “Is it enough for us to just be? But my gut feeling is that I need to do something to be worthy, to contribute, to give…” It is not a gut feeling, it is just what has been conditioned in you by the society. The society has been telling you continuously, persistently, day in, day out, from your very childhood—in the school, in the college, in the university, in the church, the priest, the politician, the parent, the professor—they are all joined together in one single conspiracy to give you the idea that as you are, you are unworthy. You have to do something, you have to prove yourself, then only will you be worthy. This is the strategy of the society to exploit you; this is the society’s ugly way to make slaves of you—not creators but slaves. But in beautiful, sophisticated ways you have been conditioned. Beautiful words cover very ugly realities. The ugly reality is that the society wants to use you as a slave, the society wants to manipulate you, the society wants to control you. It manages it in two ways. On”
― Osho, quote from Living on Your Own Terms: What Is Real Rebellion?
“Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you’re happy, it’s an animal serenity, something between contentment and joy, a steadiness of the belonged self in the world.”
― E.L. Doctorow, quote from Andrew's Brain
“Tim was on his feet and out the door, leg muscles pushing hard against the concrete when he saw Ben was already halfway down the block. Not this time! Tim was running to him, not away. The world seemed to move in slow motion, as if no possible speed was fast enough to close the distance.”
― Jay Bell, quote from Something Like Winter
“The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea.”
― Faraaz Kazi, quote from Truly, Madly, Deeply
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