What Women Really Want with Isabel Allende November 2, 2011

"My most significant achievements are not my books, but the love I share with a few people, especially my family, and the ways in which I have tried to help others" -Isabel Allende

Join us for this conversation with Isabel Allende, and learn how the celebrated author transforms facts into magical stories and turns reality into endless possibilities. Her talent for creating a story becomes our conversation for this evening, focusing on her theme of women determining their own way. Supporting her commitments to empowering women and saving girls from exploitation and abuse, she explores with us the ever changing role of women in today's challenging world.

Isabel Allende, the Chilean-American internationally known writer and feminist, is a women with a warrior heart, a passionate soul and a wild sense of humor. A consummate storyteller, the author of 19 books, with over 57 million copies sold, the first being House of the Spirits, the latest, Island Beneath the Sea. She has received 12 honorary doctorates and fifty awards, and her books have been adapted for a variety of movies, plays, ballets and operas.

In 1992 she created a foundation in her name to support the empowerment of women and girls worldwide.

There will be a book signing at the event.

This event is part of "Wise Talk: The Gwen Mazer Lecture Series" that presents three women of wit, wisdom, and intellect speaking the voice of the feminine, exploring the paradigms of spiritual traditions and science, and empowering the principles of leadership from the heart.

The Series continues with Marilyn Schlitz on November 16 and Nina Simons on December 8. Please check our website for details.

Official Website: http://www.ciis.edu/News_and_Events/Event_Calendar/Allende_What_Women_Really_Want_FA11.html