Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 My anger against machismo began in my childhood years, when I saw my mother and the housemaids as victims. I became obsessed with justice and developed a visceral reaction to male chauvinism. #2 I was expelled from school at age six, accused of insubordination. It was a prelude to my future, since I was always rebellious. I couldn't have had a better father, but...

"'When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating,' begins Isabel Allende. As a child, she watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children without 'resources or voice.' Isabel became a fierce and defiant little girl, determined to fight for the life her mother couldn't have. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. Among a tribe of like-minded...