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Oriana Fallaci (Italian: [oˈrjaːna falˈlaːtʃi]; 29 June 1929 - 15 September 2006) 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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Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.

Brain, Encounter, Event, Eye, Feelings, Like

I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans.

Anti Semitism, Disgusted, Europeans, Italians

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

Europe, Increased, Islam, Italy, Loss, Proportional

I am an atheist, and if an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true. There must be some human truth that is beyond religion.

Atheism, Atheist, Pope, Things, Thinking, True

Physical courage is a great test.

Tests, Physical Courage, Physical, Courage, Test

Journalism combines adventure with culture.

Adventure, Combines, Culture, Journalism

In the legends that males have invented to explain life, the first human creature is a man named Adam. Eve arrives later, to give him pleasure and cause trouble. In the paintings that adorn churches, God is an old man with a beard, never an old woman with white hair. And all the heroes are males: from Prometheus who discovered fire to Icarus who tried to fly, on down to Jesus whom they call the Son of God and of the Holy Spirit, almost as though the woman giving birth to him were an incubator or a wetnurse.

Explain, Hero, Holy, Jesus, Son, Woman

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.

Country, Europe, Ones, Open, Society, Years

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.

War, Believe, Soul, Souls, Mediation

America's a hard school, I know, but hard schools make excellent graduates.

America, Know, Make, School, Schools, United States

To be good or bad doesn't count: life out in this world doesn't depend on that. It depends on a relation of forces based on violence. And survival is violence. You'll wear leather shoes because someone has killed a cow and skinned it to make leather.

Depends, Relation, Shoes, Survival, Violence, World

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.

Humiliate, Noses, People, Vote, Voting

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

Alone, Exist, Like, Like Me, Parade, Parades

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 phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

Power, Leader, President, Inhuman, See, Against

Europe becomes more and more a province of Islam, a colony of Islam. And Italy is an outpost of that province, a stronghold of that colony. . . In each of our cities lies a second city: a Muslim city, a city run by the Quran. A stage in the Islamic expansionism.

Islamic, Lying, Muslim, Running, Stage

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all.

Book, Books, Expressed, Opinion, Written Word

Equality. . . like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.

Equality, Eggs, Where You Are, Freedom, Womb

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

Destiny, Dream, Injustice, Mistake, Oppresses, Spoke

I've found what I was looking for, Child: what people call love between a man and a woman is a season. And if, at its flowering, this season is a feast of greenery, at its waning, it's only a heap of rotting leaves.

Children, Flowering, Man, Men, People, Woman

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

Perspective, Points, Three, View, Views

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