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
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?
men tyrants want
I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
men shy mets
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
men world language
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
children men people
I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.
struggle boys men
What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
fighting men sheep
If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he’s fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose..
generous nature weak
I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?
I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
love
I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.
born develop form life living ready trust war wars
When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.
bush face frozen laura saw time tv
Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
bare body crowded expose lay means oneself speak taking
To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
home stay work
I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.