Isabel Allende Speaks to ‘The Soul of a Woman’

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Bay Area based journalist and author Isabel Allende’s books--translated into 42 languages-- have resonated across cultures and countries around the world. Her forthcoming book, “The Soul of a Woman,” is a memoir of her feminism, which she embraced at a very early age as she witnessed her single mother struggle to look after three children. Isabel first appeared on Forum in 1995 and she joins Michael Krasny now, as he heads into retirement, to speak about her newest work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.7	And welcome back to Forum.
0:37.5	Bay Area-based journalist and author Isabel Allende's books
0:40.4	translated into 42 languages have resonated across cultures and countries around the world.
0:45.9	Her forthcoming book, The Soul of a Woman, is a memoir of her feminism,
0:49.3	which she embraced at a very early age as she witnessed her single mother's struggle
0:53.1	to look after three children.
0:55.3	Isabelle first appeared on Forum with me in 1995 and joins me today as I head into retirement
1:00.7	to speak about her newest work and bienvenitos Isabel. Always good to have you with us.
1:06.6	Ola, Michael. I'm so sorry that you are retiring. What am I going to do without you?
1:12.7	Well, we still have a friendship, and that actually prompts me to say something in the way of an apology.
1:18.6	It was wonderful of you and Amy Tan and at that tribute at the Commonwealth Club last week,
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