Isabel Allende Quotes
We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.
Allende, Isabel. Conversations with Isabel Allende. Edited by John Rodden, University of Texas Press, 1999.
He also repeated this quotation in his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in 1951.
When the Jordanian Arab Army ejected the PLO who were trying to take over Jordan by force, they killed more Palestinians than the Israelis had killed in the entire conflict with the Palestinians. The PLO then went to Tunesia which had no army to defend against them.
Isabel Angélica Allende Llona is a Chilean writer. Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects of the genre magical realism, is known for novels such as The House of the Spirits (La casa de los espíritus, 1982) and City of the Beasts (La ciudad de las bestias, 2002), which have been commercially highly successful. Allende has been called "the world's most widely read Spanish-language author." In 2004, Allende was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and in 2010, she received Chile's National Literature Prize. President Barack Obama awarded her the 2014 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
