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
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.
mother years giving
I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back to the first human born of another human being, whether he liked it or not. Probably, if he or she had been allowed to choose, he would have been frightened and answered: No, I don't want to be born. But no one asked their opinion, and so they were born and lived and died after giving birth to another human being who was not asked to choose, and that one did likewise, for millions of years, right down to us.
country years europe
The more democratic and open a society is, the more it's exposed to terrorism. The more a country is free, not governed by a police regime, the more it risks hijackings or massacres like the ones that took place for many years in Italy and Germany and other parts of Europe.
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.
cannot saved
A civilization, a culture, cannot survive without passion, cannot be saved without passion.
broadway certainly jazz power rock strength symbols technology
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.