Tales of passion | Isabel Allende

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🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a special archive presentation of TED Talks Daily.
0:05.1	This talk features novelist Isabel Allende, recorded live at TED 2007.
0:12.8	Thank you so much.
0:14.7	It's really scary to be here among the smartest of the smart.
0:18.7	I'm here to tell you a few tales of passion. There's a Jewish saying that I love.
0:25.5	What is truer than truth? Answer the story. I'm a storyteller. I want to convey something that is
0:35.8	truer than truth about our common humanity.
0:39.7	All stories interest me and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
0:45.5	Certain themes keep coming up.
0:47.7	Justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.
0:55.3	I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions,
1:02.3	dreams, the power of nature, magic.
1:07.1	In the last 20 years, I have published a few books, but I have lived in anonymity until February of 2006
1:14.6	when I carried the Olympic flag in the Winter Olympics in Italy.
1:19.6	That made me a celebrity.
1:22.6	Now people recognize me in Macy's,
1:24.6	and my grandchildren think that I'm cool. Allow me to tell you about my four minutes of fame.
1:31.3	One of the organizers of the Olympic ceremony, of the opening ceremony, called me and said
1:37.3	that I had been selected to be one of the flag bearers.
1:40.3	I replied that surely this was a case of mistaken identity
1:44.6	because I'm as far as you can get from being an athlete.
1:48.0	Actually, I wasn't even sure that I could go around the stadium without a walker.
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