Isabel Allende: Tales of passion

Isabel Allende: Tales of passion | TED

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16 жыл бұрын

Author and activist Isabel Allende discusses women, creativity, the definition of feminism -- and, of course, passion -- in this talk.
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@lenuma65 8 жыл бұрын

Great speech, it touched me and I'm sure touched many people. By listening to her I'm proud to be a chilean

@Bjzou 11 жыл бұрын

By reading all the misogynists comments below, she's totally right. We need to educate our children, the new generations, to not tolerate any kind of disrespect, violence or abuse against women. This is all a matter of the patriarchal education we have all received, but it's in our hands to change it. Feminism is more necessary than ever!

@DebCawley1 14 жыл бұрын

A Woman after my own Heart!!! Very Inspirational!!! Love her Message!!!

@reivilo 16 жыл бұрын

standing ovations aren't given out. they are inspired by the listener. Seems her speech is as powerful as any other presentation. This is due to her articulation providing the mental visuals.

@booorderline 13 жыл бұрын

"So nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me" lol ahahah. A breathtaking speech, how can you do not love this woman! :D

@fernandosolanovalverde8467 10 жыл бұрын

unquestionably!!, the best speech ever.

@afroditerodrigues 8 жыл бұрын

Que vontade me deu de mudar o mundo AGORA! Nunca li os livros desta escritora, mas depois deste discurso preciso urgentemente ler um deles.

@cuddlebuttons 14 жыл бұрын

i just love her. i love her absolutely and without question. she is a formidable talent and enlightened soul.

@azukita18 15 жыл бұрын

I love Isabel Allende. I started reading spanish literature after having read La Casa de los espiritus. And I can say with all certainty that I have not read a more beautiful, impressive and unforgetable novel. I highly recommend it. Isabel Allende...una de las mejores escritoras de America Latina y del mundo entero. I wish I could meet her one day.

@KARIN777777 14 жыл бұрын

love her!!!!! And so proud! She makes me to remember how much brave we women can be

@ines0036 16 жыл бұрын

She and her stories are compelling and impressive!

@nadiaTeeze 16 жыл бұрын

I think she is a great speaker. What a powerful speech.

@LANICACSM 15 жыл бұрын

Greatest writer!!! love her!

@quirklyquibble Жыл бұрын

Deeply touching speech, my respect to this woman.

@jpbernie72 16 жыл бұрын

I pray that these injustices to women and children are ended. In the meantime I will continue to treat my wife and children with love, dignity and respect.

@patixy 14 жыл бұрын

Good, that's why I love Isabel Allende. She really inspired me

@boydism08 16 жыл бұрын

Really inspiring. Major influence in my artwork. Thanks so much.

@hannahskm 14 жыл бұрын

Beautiful speech.. beautiful woman!

@Flopa20 15 жыл бұрын

I love her.

@relym66 11 жыл бұрын

One of the best!

@ndayisabajeandedieu8863 7 жыл бұрын

very interesting speech

@nunzilco 11 жыл бұрын

Outstanding!

@voladora92 15 жыл бұрын

love her

@MrAndryist 11 жыл бұрын

What I'm saying is that most of the time, the men are not the ones "displaced" - which means those who flee a war, etc.... because the men are the ones who are FIGHTING in the war which the "displaced" persons fled.

@LaShawnLatera 10 жыл бұрын

this is amazing!!!! and interesting!!!

@nemesis1ization 11 жыл бұрын

hey i remember you!!amazing videos you put.kudos

@whatsarahsaid3 15 жыл бұрын

amazing.

@VanessaVerduga 12 жыл бұрын

I don't understand all the hate-filled comments. There is nothing hateful in her speech. She speaks the truth of the realities that exist for women who are less fortunate than others. Why is a speech in favor of these women a bad thing? She speaks the truth. Thank you Isabel - you're a true heroine!!!!

@khunnithmeng7777 6 жыл бұрын

I wish all old women die off and without women we wouldn't have all these problem exist in this world. Sound heroine? No I think it would be sexist

@wauleee7297 11 ай бұрын

What are the mains point she is talking about

@lilsmiley16840 13 жыл бұрын

I agree, it is true.

@KSangel180 11 жыл бұрын

That was so beautiful.

@loretosport 13 жыл бұрын

wow... no words...

@akoanani 16 жыл бұрын

It's really great....

@barnabas65collins 16 жыл бұрын

Great writer!! viva Chile!!

@70Paola 6 ай бұрын

Meraviglioso❤️

@hijadelafortuna 16 жыл бұрын

Unicamente sensacionalmente maravillosa humanidad...ole...ole...ole..Señora Isabel

@comitechilenodv 11 жыл бұрын

I like it!

@dianniah 16 жыл бұрын

Strenghth of a different nature arose when tying the umbilical cord with hair or watering a tree drop by drop. This passion and strength is born of survival and there are very few women who have the opportunity to access this youtube site that can speak from that perspective.

@Rosazuly7 13 жыл бұрын

Even when i like her a lot as a writter, beside the fact that she is a woman, comes from latinamerica and is a feminist, (I'm a latinamerican woman, feminist and love literature), I have to say, the thing isn't about if men rul the world, the thing is ONLY men rul the word, this isn't about who will do things better, this is about equal rights, this is about your voice making a difference when you speak up as a woman. let's put aside all the hate and prejugements, they won't take us a anywhere

@sararojas9035 3 жыл бұрын

Excelente

@booiggers 13 жыл бұрын

@gummybrain I already did..I don't care whom she is but what she said has a lot of truth in it.

@santoshchawla 15 жыл бұрын

you make me feel strong,our time is almost here

@StephenHardyMusic 12 жыл бұрын

If you've read her book House of the Spirits, you should be familiar with the protest songs about the Fox and the Hen. I actually wrote what I think one of those songs would sound like for an English project a couple years back. You should give it a listen and see what you think! Great book

@santoshchawla 16 жыл бұрын

wow,she is sure electrifying.

@floy81 16 жыл бұрын

jaja i am reading her book "La Suma de Los Dias" and i had just read yesterday the part of her 4 minutes of fame. hillarious!!

@lunatir 15 жыл бұрын

respect allende

@Deusrexmachina 16 жыл бұрын

Thank You, Madame. @-->----

@gkdrummerboy 16 жыл бұрын

the house of spirits was a good book

@scrabbleking1965 14 жыл бұрын

@sashaleem YES I was wrong, her father and Salvador were 1st cousins, that make her a "1st cousin once removed" from Salvador. Salvador also had a daughter Isabel, who would be this Isabel's 2nd cousin.

@imagine1231989 16 жыл бұрын

I read "Dos Palabras" :]

@elcamaleon1 15 жыл бұрын

I don't see how you can perceive her marvellous speech like that...I really don't. She opens up for males to participate in a strife for an equal society..in terms of condition. I think this is an excellent video.

@gjfanatique 14 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen where the blurbs on her books mention her wonderful whimsical humor. I have laughed aloud more often reading her books than any I can recall, save maybe Truman Capote or Jorge Amado. It's not like she's trying to be funny; it's her portraying herself, the narrator, as over-the-top breathless about what's going on in the story. She is The Master of the whopper.

@misstmemrs 11 жыл бұрын

In so many fundamental ways, women have only recently been accorded 'human being' status in some parts of the world. It's not about blaming men, it is about understanding the nature of power and control, and how a society that respects women is better for all concerned.

@aldanamichelino 14 жыл бұрын

Just one simple word... passion

@superdavid002 14 жыл бұрын

I mention Allende in The History Song.

@NahirBonet 11 жыл бұрын

i wanna a translaton, i speak spanish,i dont know much of english!!! thanks!

@chilenozo 15 жыл бұрын

I do want her in Chile, and judging by her books success in Chile, lots of people think the same. Besides, the ones who governs the country now are as sold as her (capitalism protected by socialist), which tell you the political views of THE MAJORITY. She is, first of all, a writer, not a politician, she lives out the money produced by the books, it is her choice, as any other human being. Respect that. As a you respect a nurse or a janitor doing and living just out their jobs.

@robinperez 9 жыл бұрын

Very nice talk by Isabel Allende :)

@RizVicious 11 жыл бұрын

I want to know why this woman got a standing ovation after her final statement

@yxuyuan 11 жыл бұрын

I'm telling you to look up a specific article (with reference to a specific section) because youtube doesn't allow links in the comment section. -.- You still don't address my questions of domestic work, and what I cited are still government-reviewed stats, which you are free to refute if you could.

@sashaleem 14 жыл бұрын

@scrabbleking1965 She is not the daughter of Salvador Allende, her that was Allende's cousin.

@lucianaalmeida1471 Жыл бұрын

Quando crescer quero ser do tamanho de Isabel.😊

@AliceYobby 11 жыл бұрын

oh my god

@yxuyuan 11 жыл бұрын

source please? not to be antagonistic, but genuinely interested.

@camilahernandez9240 7 жыл бұрын

wena po, me gustó

@heyitsellie616 12 жыл бұрын

It astounds me how most of the commenters have a limited view of what feminism is.

@ivan1977alex 13 жыл бұрын

@lilsmiley16840 ella nacio en Lima , Peru..........she born in LiMA ,PERU you can see in wikipedia

@De4sher 15 жыл бұрын

I think I was saying the same thing, in a more destructive way :) Yeah a lot of things are human constructs, and I think it would be a good thing from time to time to remember that. I daily come across people who tell me "i have no right to this and that", and I just laugh. Obviously I have the "right" to do everything I can. It doesn't mean I would be stupid to do things that are not in my interest though :)

@dojohansen123 11 жыл бұрын

Allow me to recomment a very interesting book that is highly relevant here: The Red Queen - Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature by Matt Ridley. While I can certainly not say Ridley's convictions are necessarily correct, I can attest the book is entertaining and fascinating and provides a lot of food for thought. Without giving anything away, I can say Mr. Ridley believes sexual selection has played a crucial role in the evolution of our nature, and not for no reason.

@WFiIK 16 жыл бұрын

Enlightening, passionate and valuable talk, among other wonderful things .. can be so much more powerful without disrespecting a gender. What is the difference which gender you disrespect - it still damages the message.

@lilsmiley16840 13 жыл бұрын

@vanlex100 I saw an interview where the host said she's from Chile. But it doesn't really matter. No big deal. I think she even mentioned on her speech that she's from Chile.... Anyway, I like her work. NP

@lilsmiley16840 13 жыл бұрын

@vanlex100 I thought she's from Chile

@YouTubeJen 12 жыл бұрын

SHE WAS JOKING! A lot of men got all crazy calling her the opposite of a misogynist, but you have to realize she's reading an excerpt from her book, The Sum of Our Days, which is very tongue in cheek! She's not really actually short enough to fit in between Raquel Welch's legs, either, genius! If you read anything about her life, or her non-fiction books, you'd know she definitely adores men. She's Latin dude, she doesn't want men w/manginas, just not macho a-holes.

@khunnithmeng7777 6 жыл бұрын

What is all of that have to do with what she said. She can adore men all she want making sexist jokes toward men also considered sexists. Have you seen how females got all crazy when a man making a sexists joke?

@DavidBall67 16 жыл бұрын

Bravo, we need interesting characters. We need rebels and misfits. We don't need killers. We need good people willing to live lives of passion. We don't need people willing to die for a cause, but people willing to live for one.

@80sNoize 15 жыл бұрын

nacida en PERU!

@De4sher 16 жыл бұрын

I'm just saying that every one of us should be (should feel) responsible for our own lives, and try to do something about it. I'm not suggesting we should all go around blaming everybody else, that wouldn't help at all. Furthermore, couldn't passion arise in everyday situation? Do you really need extreme conditions for it to develop? Also, if you reply, please try to use shorter sentences, i'm not a native speaker and it took me almost 10 minutes to understand what you were trying to say :)

@CUMBICA1970 13 жыл бұрын

Well, just between the two of us, definitely I see more advantages being a man, at least in my workplace. We get around 30%+ than female workers doing the exact same job and only men are allowed to do extra-hours (a very important factor to us.)

@BerthaMcFee 11 жыл бұрын

Reason is a tool. What do we choose to use it on? Passion and reason are orthogonal to each other. Men run the world, and things DO improve every year... so long as you remember that one of the ways in which things improve is in gender equity. What she says about the correlation between gender inequity and other social ills. She may hyperbolize a little, but the amount is insignificant.

@De4sher 16 жыл бұрын

that would be a little hard to accomplish, but hey! it's our world, we're responsible for it. Nevertheless changes are beginning to happen, especially, as always, within the young generation. No time to criticize the mistakes of the past now. We've got to view the world in a positive way and act accordingly.

@dojohansen123 11 жыл бұрын

First off, thanks for the reply, and your sources. I fail to see why comparing full-time working men to full-time working women is unfair or any reason to expect biased results. I also don't see how women choosing lower paying positions do anything to explain why women still earn 20-30% less than men working THE SAME positions. That said, I do hope you are right. If sexual discrimination really is a thing of the past, that's certainly something to celebrate.

@scort8888 16 жыл бұрын

Isabel Allende thus being first cousin, once removed of Salvador Allende, President of Chile.

@dojohansen123 11 жыл бұрын

Argh. Love YT's utter lack of editing features... That was of course supposed to read Allow me to recommenD a ...

@fourkero1 13 жыл бұрын

I see that still we have a lot of macho man in the present century ( XXI ) and they feel very bad when listen the truth that Isabel tell us . I`m proud be a chilean like you Isabel Allende.

@khunnithmeng7777 6 жыл бұрын

So you actually agree with her that men are the cause of the problem that happen to this world ?

@Atomsk 14 жыл бұрын

i just don't get the whole fear of women thing. i'm a man and i LOVE strong women.

@pacoiec 16 жыл бұрын

"Los escritores chilenos, con alguna excepción, no quieren tener ningún problema. Sólo quieren que se les quiera, que de ser posible un día se vean instalados en una agregaduría cultural, que hablen bien de ellos. Escalar, escalar siempre, buscar y conseguir el éxito, aunque el éxito sea tan pequeño como Chile mismo. En esta feria de vanidades, en este baile de salón entre los siúticos y los cuicos, brilla todo, menos la literatura". - Roberto Bolaño

@KAIJUFREAK116 11 жыл бұрын

They don't know what it is and they go by the what the media shows them.

@De4sher 16 жыл бұрын

What do you want then? What do you have to offer then, and what do you want to receive in exchange. Ok, I agree that sometimes, women can be more "powerful" than men. Now what? We just leave things as they are, or what? Because if you don't actually want anything, then this conversation is pointless. So give me a suggestion, what to do or how to think, to make the world a better place. Respect women? I already do that. Respect myself? checked; What else?

@janiobsb 11 жыл бұрын

Hola La Kami... Non solo en ton idiom, pero en más de 20. Visite: TED.COM (y busque Isabel Allende) y tu teras a complete trascripción (in more than 20 languages), Ex.: Muchísimas gracias. ¡Qué miedo estar aquí entre los más inteligentes de los inteligentes! Estoy aquí para contarles algunas historias de pasión. Hay un refrán judío que me encanta. ¿Qué es más más cierto que la verdad? Respuesta: La historia. Yo soy una contadora de historias...

@yxuyuan 11 жыл бұрын

I'm not saying that men do not undertake jobs that are risky (ie. resource extraction). What I am saying is that upper-class men have more institutional power, which is something even the Warren Farrell recognizes. With institutional power comes the ability to make policy, decisions, and create a cultural discourse. The author you cite considers domestic women's work "voluntary" and consequently insignificant, so I'm not too tempted to engage with that kind of bigotry.

@St37One 15 жыл бұрын

Fortunately for everyone, Political Correctness is self-contradictory, and eventually gives way to truth. As more awareness is spread about the realities of intimate partner violence in lesbian couples, and in gay couples, people will see that there is much more to the picture than "wife beating" and that it is really not a gender issue, or one of good vs evil. The way i see it, its an issue of TRUST, self-control, and the decision to tolerate ANY violence in an intimate relationship.

@tylerorban09 14 жыл бұрын

rare woman.

@muffinproject 11 жыл бұрын

My point is with the misleading statistics often used by "raging feminist" rhetoric. Mentioning 80% sounds like a very unbalanced ratio of 1:4, so it's a very powerful statistic to throw around. But is not exactly honest and straightforward because it is sampling two different sized pools. If you have 30 red balls and 10 green ones, do you expect a 50% chance at either when picking at random? No. You expect a 75% or 25% chance.

@gg_rider 15 жыл бұрын

I believe the stats Isabel Allende describes on how women are abused and subjugated, however I also know of situations where men are abused and subjugated unfairly by women with a degree of political power and enforcement. Or children abused by women. I support what Allende stands for, I'm just saying ... avoid broad blanket prejudices.

@Cynthia42807 11 жыл бұрын

So? What's your point?

@muffinproject 11 жыл бұрын

And what I'm saying is that the distribution is so perfectly equal between the male and female gender that it is a distribution of 49.48% and 50.52%. In other words, neither men nor women are displaced significantly more than the other gender. We are talking about an imbalance of ~20.000 people on a scale of 8 million.

@muffinproject 11 жыл бұрын

I meant the refugee statistics, not the monetary ones. And those refugee stats can be, and likely are, true. If you have 5 people, 1 mother, 1 father, 2 boys and 1 girl, then 80% are women OR child and 20% male AND adult. But gives the wrong impression because it's not merely about gender, nor merely about age.

@biakuya 11 жыл бұрын

It's sad that in this day and age, one can give a sexist speech based on ignorance, hate, lies and discrimination and be applauded at the end.

@gummybrain 13 жыл бұрын

@booiggers You're not seriously quoting Camille Paglia, are you? She's completely insane.

@Loverwinners Жыл бұрын

Wow!!! Patriarchal society is alive and well in America too.

@uber301 13 жыл бұрын

They made us watch this in English I.B.

@glitchesandglitter 14 жыл бұрын

her version of reality or the real complex version that has to do with history, biology, and the pure relationship between both sexes. you have to ask the question as to why wars begin in the first place. hypothetically if women were to rule the world and become dominant, would this hypothetical situation not lead to prejeduce toward men. probably, considering that the scenario itself revolves around the idea of women somehow dominating men! lets build an equal society, celeb masc and fem