Women writers have to work four or five times harder than men: Isabel Allende – Times of India
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,” writes 78-year-old Isabel Allende, the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, in her new book, The Soul of a Woman. But it’s far from a boring treatise on feminism and more about lived experience, with engaging anecdotes ranging from her penchant for killing male lovers in her books to her research into online dating. In an interview to Neelam Raaj, she talks about how an India visit changed her, and why it’s never too late to love The Soul of a Woman looks at feminism through the lens of your own family. Why did you choose the part-memoir style rather than a treatise, say like Germaine Greer whose The Female Eunuch was your first feminist read?I had no intention of writing a manifesto. I just wanted t...
