How to live passionately isabel allende biography
How to live passionately.
Passion and aging: Isabel Allende at TED2014
Isabel Allende. Photo: James Duncan Davidson
Author Isabel Allende is 71.
How to live passionately isabel allende biography
Her husband is 76, her parents are in their late 90s and her dog, Olympia, is 16. So she’s confronting the issue of aging head-on and thinking hard about how to live passionately through the process.
“Society decides when we are old, usually at 65,” says Allende.
“But really, we start aging at birth. We’re aging right now.”
She brings up some of the aging women she admires — Sophia Loren and Olga Murray, who at age 60 started working for the good of children in Nepal and now, at 88, has saved 12,000 girls from being sold into slavery.
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Also on her admiration list: the Dalai Lama. “The Dalai Lama is someone who has aged beautifully,” says Allende, “but who wants to be vegetarian and celibate?”
Allende asks, “So what have I lost in the last decades?
People, places and the boundless energy of my yo