Isabel Allende Chile Quotations

On a Tuesday, September 11th, 1973, we had the military coup in Chile that forced me to leave my country eventually. And then, on a Tuesday, September 11th, 2001, we had the terrorist attack in the United States.

Before the military coup in Chile, we had the idea that military coups happen in Banana Republics, somewhere in Central America. It would never happen in Chile. Chile was such a solid democracy. And when it happened, it had brutal characteristics.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

At five I was already a feminist, and nobody used the word in Chile yet.