As always, her secret weapon is honesty.” - Publishers Weekly Her book is filled with succinct wisdom and big laughs. “Allende’s vivacity and wit are in full bloom as she makes her pronouncements. Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language.” - Entertainment Weekly “Charming and entertaining.” - The New York Times Book Review My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile Allende is a survivor worth reading and emulating.” - The Dallas Morning News “ executes this epistolary memoir with the same authenticity and poetry that grace her fiction. “ Allende is a genius.” - Los Angeles Times Book Review

They will have to live for us, as we lived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.” On all these fronts, there is much work yet to be done, and this book, Allende hopes, will “light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. So what feeds the soul of feminists-and all women-today? To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over our bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. And over the course of three passionate marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one’s sexuality.

She has seen what the movement has accomplished in the course of her lifetime. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists, Allende for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin, as they wrote “with a knife between our teeth” about women’s issues. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without “resources or voice.” Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn’t have.Īs a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the second wave of feminism.

“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” begins Isabel Allende. “ The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”- Elle From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).

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