You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus. Oriana Fallaci More Quotes by Oriana Fallaci More Quotes From Oriana Fallaci Physical courage is a great test. Oriana Fallaci physical-courage tests 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 abortion mother pregnancy 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-life cancer thinking I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism. Oriana Fallaci girl fighting littles I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk. Oriana Fallaci mets shy men 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 balls broken thinking I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion. Oriana Fallaci struggle-for-freedom freedom-of-religion struggle 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 sacrifice writing years Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient? Oriana Fallaci patient war peace 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 technology strength power science 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 man courage beauty war 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 speak soul sun beach I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of. Oriana Fallaci the-only-thing i-am only know The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette. Oriana Fallaci thing woman most humiliating 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 through you journalism truth 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 hide never work home
