Quotes by Oriana Fallaci

About Oriana Fallaci:

Oriana Fallaci was 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.
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I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.

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You cannot work and be at home with your child. But you want both.

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I don't want to hear about my death.

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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.

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I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

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Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.

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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.'

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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?

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Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomenon.

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America's vulnerability comes precisely from its strength, its wealth, its power and its modernity. It's the usual story of the dog chasing its own tail.

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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.

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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 an...

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I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

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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.

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Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

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I've always disliked kamikazes, that is, people who commit suicide in order to kill others. Starting with the Japanese ones from World War II. I never considered them Pietro Miccas who torch the powder and go up with the citadel in order to block the...

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Author Bio

  • NameOriana Fallaci
  • DescriptionItalian writer
  • BornJune 29, 1929
  • DiedSeptember 15, 2006
  • CountryItaly
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Politician; Writer; Journalist; Conspiracy Theorist
  • AwardsItalian Order Of Merit For Culture And Art; Ambrogino D'oro