Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaci
Oriana Fallaciwas an Italian journalist, author, and political interviewer. A partisan during World War II, she had a long and successful journalistic career. Fallaci became famous worldwide for her coverage of war and revolution, and her interviews with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth29 June 1929
CityFlorence, Italy
CountryItaly
tests physical-courage
Physical courage is a great test.
writing sacrifice years
I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
portraiture want portraits
Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?
disgusted anti-semitism
I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.
husband men unfaithful
Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
beauty courage intelligence man reveals war
Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma.