Isabel Allende on Women Empowerment
I was forwarded this link of Isabel Allende speaking at TED - Technology, Entertainment and Design . Although I have not read (blush) any of her novels I have seen one of her works adapted into film. Here is the reason why you should listen and watch her, from TED website: As a novelist and memoirist, Isabel Allende writes of passionate lives, including her own. Born into a Chilean family with political ties, she went into exile in the United States in the 1970s -- an event that, she believes, created her as a writer. Her voice blends sweeping narrative with touches of magical realism; her stories are romantic, in the very best sense of the word. Her novels include The House of the Spirits, Eva Luna and The Stories of Eva Luna, and her latest, Ines of My Soul and La Suma de los Dias (The Sum of Our Days). And don't forget her adventure trilogy for young readers -- City of the Beasts, Kingdom of the Golden Dragon and Forest of the Pygmies. As a memoirist, she has written about he...