Isabel Allende: It's important because it's very new. When I started writing forty-two years ago, they said that I was the only Latina-American woman writer in the boom of Latin American literature. They were all men, but women have been writing forever. Their voices have been silenced, ignored or dismissed. Now, there are as many women writers as there are men, and more women than men read fiction. That means that there is a market out there that is controlled by women readers and that is really important.