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In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write a book with your husband.' My husband is a writer of crime novels. His name is William Gordon. And so I had to accommodate to his style because that's what he writes. So we decided we'd give it a try. Well, we almost divorced.
— Isabel Allende
Tags: name, husband, style, you

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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
Tags: son, mother, me, love
The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.
— Isabel Allende
Tags: roots, i-am, experience, myself
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.
— Isabel Allende
Tags: sharing, healing, pain, life
Empowering women means trusting them.
— Isabel Allende
Tags: empowering, means, them, women
Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.
— Isabel Allende
Tags: go, black, fear, you
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