Oriana Fallaci

“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.”

“The most humiliating thing a woman can be is a coquette.”

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

“You cannot survive if you do not know the past.”

“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.”

“I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.”

“The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”

“Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?”

“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.”

“i live on my books. on my writings, i live on my royalties: the percentage an author recieves on each sold copy. and i am proud of it. i am so even though such percentage is small or i should say irrelevant.”

“I don't want to hear about my death.”

“We must take positions. Our weakness in the West is born of the fact of so-called 'objectivity.' Objectivity does not exist - it cannot exist!... The word is a hypocrisy which is sustained by the lie that the truth stays in the middle. No, sir: Sometimes truth stays on one side only.”

“Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and voted for one of them, I would spit on my own face.”

“The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.”

“I am a danger to myself if I get angry.”

“It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.”

“I don't hide. I never have. I stay at home because I like to stay at home, and at home I work.”

“It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.”