Oriana Fallaci

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.”

“I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.”

“My soldier weapon is the weapon of truth.”

“I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. It's that simple!”

“I have reached the conclusion that those who have physical courage also have moral courage. Physical courage is a great test.”

“Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.”

“I have always looked on disobedience toward the oppressive as the only way to use the miracle of having been born.”

“I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.”

“War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.”

“I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.”

“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.”

“Heroes can be sweet.”

“I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.”

“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.'”

“Wojtyla was a warrior, who did more to end the Soviet Union than even America.”

“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.”

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