Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age
Isabel Allende: Como viver apaixonadamente — independentemente da vossa idade
Isabel Allende writes stories of passion. Her novels and memoirs, including The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna, tell the stories of women and men who live with passionate commitment -- to love, to their world, to an ideal. Full bio
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de mim descaíram
lá em baixo.
selvagem e preciosa?"
quando subscrevemos o Medicare
desde o nascimento.
de modo diferente.
do que a nossa idade real,
atitude e saúde.
nesta jornada do envelhecimento
aos 60 anos
a salvar meninas
vendam as suas filhas
da minha juventude,
a minha independência
as mudanças no corpo
de provar nada a ninguém.
esperam que eu seja.
para se afastar
não tenho ambição, vaidade,
ou na minha casa.
vegetariano ou celibatário?
sinto-me encantadora, sedutora, "sexy".
há seis anos,
como deficiente.
ela ainda está a surfar no oceano.
ativista enérgica
de novo companheiro.
o António Banderas...
tem de aturar isso.
apaixonada aos 71 anos.
me apareça pelo caminho:
e é um tempo fantástico.
doentes ou muito pobres,
IA: Thank you.
IA: Obrigada.
speak for the TED community,
em nome da comunidade TED
continua encantadora,
(Applause)
(Aplausos)
IA: No, it's makeup.
IA: Não, é maquilhagem.
about your erotic fantasies?
das suas fantasias eróticas?
IA: With Antonio Banderas.
IA: Com o António Banderas.
if you have anything more to share.
teria mais alguma coisa a dizer-nos.
(Risos)
um António Banderas nu
(Risos)
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Isabel Allende - NovelistIsabel Allende writes stories of passion. Her novels and memoirs, including The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna, tell the stories of women and men who live with passionate commitment -- to love, to their world, to an ideal.
Why you should listen
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, Maya's Notebook and Ripper. 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 her vision of her lost Chile, in My Invented Country, and movingly tells the story of her life to her own daughter, in Paula. Her book Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses memorably linked two sections of the bookstore that don't see much crossover: Erotica and Cookbooks. Just as vital is her community work: The Isabel Allende Foundation works with nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chile to empower and protect women and girls—understanding that empowering women is the only true route to social and economic justice.
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