I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. Oriana Fallaci More Quotes by Oriana Fallaci More Quotes From Oriana Fallaci 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 arrival of the enemy troops at Torino. I never considered them soldiers. Oriana Fallaci blocksuicidewar Physical courage is a great test. Oriana Fallaci physical-couragetests Without Khomeini, we would not be where we are. What a pity that, when pregnant with him, his mother did not choose to have an abortion. Oriana Fallaci abortionmotherpregnancy I don't even know if I will be around next year. My cancers are so bad that I think I've arrived at the end of the road. What a pity. I would like to live not only because I love life so much, but because I'd like to see the result of the trial. I do think I will be found guilty. Oriana Fallaci love-lifecancerthinking I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. Oriana Fallaci girlfightinglittles I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. Oriana Fallaci metsshymen If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls. Oriana Fallaci ballsbrokenthinking I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. Oriana Fallaci struggle-for-freedomfreedom-of-religionstruggle I don't want to hear about my death. Oriana Fallaci want 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. Oriana Fallaci sacrificewritingyears Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? Oriana Fallaci patientwarpeace Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended. Oriana Fallaci 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. Oriana Fallaci technologystrengthpowerscience Alas, nothing reveals man the way war does. Nothing so accentuates in him the beauty and ugliness, the intelligence and foolishness, the brutishness and humanity, the courage and cowardice, the enigma. Oriana Fallaci mancouragebeautywar 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! Oriana Fallaci speaksoulsunbeach The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. Oriana Fallaci thingwomanmosthumiliating The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism. Oriana Fallaci throughyoujournalismtruth I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work. Oriana Fallaci hideneverworkhome
