Isabel Allende: Tales of passion

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

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[bac1089]

WTF? Look at the top comment. This is as bad as racism.

[ASANTYB]

Wonderful woman! wonderful writer!!!!!! I love her.

[Aunpaidintern]

I love Isabel Allende.

[matkakulfi]

enter preschool. This was just one of the incidence if the concordia was away in deep seas the number of dead women would be much higher and the reason would be men were just indifferent to them. Be afraid because men are becoming more and more like women.

[matkakulfi]

This lady is pure evil in flesh. She has no idea how the world works a bloody commie. You are not even worth to be in a kitchen, you belong in a coffin 6 feet under just like the old men you were speaking about. I have warned women about not taking this feminism thing to the extreme. The corsa concordia episode where the women and children were left to fend for themselves and the men saved them selves first. Well what did women expect from men when they are bombarded equality right from they

[matkakulfi]

This woman is all talk but makes no sense. All i heard was women can practice with out license in third world countries. Plant a few trees and things will change in Africa. Women in power Margaret Thacher and Indira Gandhi who both sent the soldiers on wars and if I use this lady's logic then they both made a colossal harm to the women and children as collateral damage victims. She talks about brain washing young boy and instilling and enforcing feminized masculinity doctrine making them mangina

[crudhousefull]

I'm not too sure she's the evil sexist she's made out to be in the comments. Went into the video expecting one though after reading the comments. If women only own 1% of the world's resources, that need to change. Every human needs enough resources to take care of basic needs and interests. Philosophy is needed for governance and most women aren't really into philosophy, which is a problem

[StephenHardyMusic]

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

[Jogeta5]

What the hell is gender hate speech bullcrap, what a misandrious bitch.

[fourkero1]

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.

[SpadeBag]

Welcome to the biggest double-standard ever. Women demand that they are seen and loved for the persons they are; that they are not just women. However in reverse they will only care about what man you are: how much of a strong man you are? how socially valuable are you? What is your career? what are your ambitions? Women are nothing but a hypergamous/amorous bundle of basic instincts wrapped in a perpetuated lie that those instincts is a broad and deep emotional spectrum.