![]() ![]() ![]() 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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