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
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.
want
I don't want to hear about my death.
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?
media america want
I am angry at the Jews for many things... If you want to take the example of America, how they hold the power, the economical power in so many ways, and the press and the other kind of stuff... I never realized how it happened and they came to control the media to that point. Why?
struggle love-is want
Love isn’t putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he’s chosen.
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.
far greater larger truth
The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
terribly
It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.