Women, my soul

Translation: Mark Jamal In a long-awaited meeting, the Chilean novelist spoke to us honestly, inviting us to accompany her on an intimate journey that began in childhood, a journey through her lively, noisy life, because "a quiet, safe life is not good material for imagination." Isabel Allende tells us about love; "which does not grow like a wild plant, but is carefully planted"; about age "which passes and one is busy making other plans"; about her experience in Lebanon and her travels around the world; about her career as a novelist and feminist; about what it means to be a woman in a man's world. She talks to us about her mother, the steadfast tree with deep roots; about her daughter Paula, who passed away at the bloom of her youth; about her companions on the road; about women who challenged the world of men; about women of the spirit.