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
fun liars character
Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious liar, a madman, a fraud, a swashbuckler, an international blot. You may think that, but you cannot deny how in this age in which the political arena seems to generate only dull, obtuse and boring characters with no imagination, he's a kind of miracle.
miracle way use
I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.
introducing should deny
I always introduce myself as an encyclopedia of defects which I do not deny. Why should I? It took me a whole life to build myself as I am.
loyalty children war
A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.
true-power voice long
True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
states
You belong neither to God nor the state nor me. You belong to yourself and no one else.
warrior america unions
Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.
shoes survival world
To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.
imagination progress weapons
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
equality eggs womb
Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
parades like-me
I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.
tests physical-courage
Physical courage is a great test.
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.