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
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?
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.
men shy mets
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
lying play double-standard
Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
success dream lost
To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.
jesus hero son
In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.
equality eggs womb
Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
imagination progress weapons
With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.
inspirational country war
But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
men world language
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
adventure culture journalism
Journalism combines adventure with culture.
book opinion written-word
I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.
suicide asking remember
How do you dare to ask me for a solution? It's like asking Seneca for a solution. You remember what he did? He committed suicide!
listening faces tape
Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.