My Name Is Emilia del Valle Quotes

“The males of almost every species fight. Humanity is no different. There will never be peace, Emilia. Violence is man’s principal vice.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“No intelligent woman can trust that any man will protect her,”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“Emilia is a wild and bright spirit. I will never be able to hold her, I can only hope to accompany her and that love will keep us always together.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“Todos tenemos un jardín privado donde guardamos secretos, arrepentimientos, rencores que nos avergüenzan y también los recuerdos preciosos que deseamos preservar intactos, porque al ser compartidos se desmigajan como pan en la sopa.”
― Isabel Allende, Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle

“Necessity is cruel, leaving no room for compassion.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“un día se van a unir los trabajadores en este país”
― Isabel Allende, Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle

“The Chilean accent was nothing like the Spanish spoken in my neighborhood back home in the Mission. The Chileans seemed to swallow their words, as if they were speaking around a rag stuffed in their mouths. They also sprinkled in terms that were not Spanish at all, taken from indigenous languages, I believe, and they used so many euphemisms that it was often impossible to know what the devil they were talking about.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“Nunca habrá paz, Emilia. La violencia es el vicio de los hombres.”
― Isabel Allende, Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle

“un día se van a unir los trabajadores en este país, con las mujeres al frente, y entonces vamos a tener una verdadera revolución”
― Isabel Allende, Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle

“La razón debería iluminar nuestras acciones, como predica mi Papo, pero el corazón se burla de la prudencia y hace lo que le da la gana.”
― Isabel Allende, Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle

“hate and more hate, thousands of victims, heartbroken mothers, wives, and orphans, all for political rivalry, for the illusory distribution of power, for nothing. It was pure insanity.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“That’s how it was in the United States; more men died in our Civil War than in all the other wars we’ve had. The country was left deeply wounded and I’m not certain it will ever heal,” he said. “Do you think the Chileans will hate each other forever?” I asked. “Hate often lies dormant under the surface only to sprout back up when given the correct circumstances. That is how it has happened in the United States—we are still very much a divided country.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“How can there be so much hatred among countrymen, Eric?”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“Balmaceda’s habitual calm had given way to a strange self-absorption, an almost hypnotic state in which he did not express any emotion. In recent weeks, his mind seemed to wander and his heart was closed. In these decisive days he would remain isolated among the few people he trusted, refusing to hear any bad news. He had said that he preferred not to know the extreme decisions his commanders might take, as if he wished to wash his hands of so much bloodshed.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“believed that workers had the right to unify and protest the deplorable conditions they were forced to endure, and that it was the government’s duty to consider their demands instead of sending troops in to silence them.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“Justice? No! It is simply hatred borne by the ignorant, filthy masses, envious of those who have more than them because we have worked to obtain it.” “Or perhaps you have more because you inherited it, or were born into a privileged position.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“In his case, the world cared very little about his appearance. In my case, looks were of the utmost importance, even if we were headed into war.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“Great Britain has already pledged its support for the insurgent congressmen whilst the United States has promised to back Balmaceda’s legitimate government. Each nation is motivated by the same objective: nitrate, used in both fertilizers and explosives. No empire can do without gunpowder.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“Being a woman is a serious inconvenience to success in general and particularly in a profession dominated by men.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“I think women should have the right to vote…” I answer. “Whatever for?” she interrupts. “The vote certainly hasn’t done men much good.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“He explained that condoms could be acquired at any pharmacy or tavern, but they could not be sold to women and no respectable female would ever try to obtain them anyhow. Although the consequences were much more dire for me, the most efficient precaution was beyond my reach.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“It is true that she was made to explore, and that she would have been restless until she found this land, this place where she feels her roots are planted. But she was also made to love, and she would only want a life where both things are possible,” I told him.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“The iron fist with which he wields his power is understandable given the context of the country’s civil war, but the repression began before that. At my question over the newspapers he has shut down, he replies that the opposition press lies and incites violence, that it represents the interests of the social elite, that it is an enemy of the government.”
― Isabel Allende, My Name Is Emilia del Valle

“me”
― Isabel Allende, Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle

“—Todo el tiempo, pero no pienso en eso.”
― Isabel Allende, Mi nombre es Emilia del Valle