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THE SOUL OF A WOMAN - ISABEL ALLENDE GEBUNDEN

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes a passionate and
inspiring meditation on what it means to be a woman. When I say that I was a feminist in
kindergarten  I am not exaggerating  begins Isabel Allende. 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. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s  she rode the second wave of
feminism. 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.
She has seen what the movement has accomplished in the course of her lifetime. 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. So what feeds the
soul of feminists-and all women-today? To be safe  to be valued  to live in peace  to have
their own resources  to be connected  to have control over our bodies and lives  and above all
to be loved. On all these fronts  there is much work yet to be done  and this book  Allende
hopes  will light the torches of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to
live for us  as we lived for our mothers  and carry on with the work still left to be finished.

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