𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙤𝙛 𝘼 𝙒𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙣
「沒在誇張，我幼稚園時就說過自己是女性主義者。」
伊莎貝爾．阿葉德從小看著被父親拋棄的母親，含辛茹苦拉拔三個幼子長大。身為1960年代步入成年的年輕女性，阿葉德乘著第一波女性主義的浪潮前行。她親眼見證了這波女性主義浪潮在她生命中產生的變化。經過三段婚姻，她學會了如何在擁有伴侶的狀態下同時成為一個女人、何時該脫身，以及擁抱自身的性別。
女人究竟想要什麼？女人想要安全、被重視、生活在平靜之中、擁有自己的資源、與人連結、掌控自己的身體與生命，以及最重要的—被愛著。阿葉德希望這本書能如一把明燈，引領我們的女兒、孫女，和所有女性後代。她們必須為我們而活，就像我們曾為母親而活一樣，並背負我們未竟的工作繼續前行。
“When I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating.”
As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three small children. As a young woman coming of age in the late 1960s, she rode the first wave of feminism. She has seen what has been accomplished by the movement in the course of her lifetime. And over the course of three marriages, she has learned how to grow as a woman while having a partner, when to step away, and the rewards of embracing one's sexuality.
So what do women want? To be safe, to be valued, to live in peace, to have their own resources, to be connected, to have control over their bodies and lives, and above all, to be loved. On all these fronts, there is much work to be done, and this book, Allende hopes, will 'light the torch of our daughters and granddaughters with mine. They will have to live for us, as we lived for our mothers, and carry on with the work still left to be finished.
