num_pages: 174
description:  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 first wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded female journalists she for the first time felt comfortable in her own skin as they wrote with a knife between their teeth about women's issues. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement 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 do women want? To be safe to be valued to live in peace to have their own resources to be connected to have control over their bodies and lives and above all to be loved. On all these fronts there is much work to be done and this book Allende hopes will light the torch 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.
language: English
title: The Soul of a Woman
publisher: Ballantine Books