Isabel Allende: How to live passionately—no matter your age
Isabel Allende: Como viver apaixonadamente... Não importa sua 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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pretendo viver apaixonadamente.
quando entramos no Medicare,
do que nossa idade real,
de 4kg nos lugares errados.
atitude e saúde.
nessa jornada de envelhecimento
para salvar meninas
de minha juventude,
sofrimento é menor.
que vá embora
que nem valem a pena.
ou dentro de minha casa.
de um modo bonito,
vegetariano ou celibatário?
charmosa, sedutora, sexy.
em uma cadeira de rodas
e adorada ativista
com Antonio Banderas
viver apaixonada aos 71.
e entediada eu finjo.
é um grande momento.
ou muito pobre,
IA: Thank you.
IA: Obrigada.
em nome da comunidade TED,
speak for the TED community,
sedutora e sexy, sim?
(Applause)
(Aplausos)
IA: No, it's makeup.
IA: Não, é maquiagem.
about your erotic fantasies?
sobre suas fantasias eróticas?
IA: With Antonio Banderas.
IA: Com Antonio Banderas.
if you have anything more to share.
se você teria mais a dizer.
um Antonio Banderas nu
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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