Oriana Fallaci Quotes

“First of all, I hope I brought courage, because courage is one of my few virtues, and this is something no one can deny. I’m obsessed with courage, physical and moral.”
― Cristina De Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

“She loves to be alone. For her it is the only condition that allows her to work. “I have a degree from the Sorbonne in solitude,” she once told a journalist. “I love solitude. I’m never bored when I’m alone. It’s when I’m with people that I often feel bored.”
― Cristina De Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

“Hemingway used to say that a well-written page is like a snowy field without potholes, stones, or barriers; you can ski or skate on it smoothly without losing your balance or stumbling.”
― Cristina De Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

“War accomplishes nothing, he used to say, it resolves nothing. As soon as it ends, you realize that the reasons for which it was fought have not disappeared or that new reasons have taken the place of”
― Cristina De Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

“The fact is that you are using that word ‘terrorist’ as an insult, and rightly so. But what were you when you were fighting the Arabs and the English to found Israel?” At the end of the interview, Sharon shakes her hand and says, “I knew you had come to add another scalp to your necklace. You are hard, very hard. But I enjoyed every moment of this tempestuous conversation because you are a courageous, loyal, capable woman. No one has ever come to me as well prepared as you have. No one goes into a war zone, under the bombs, just to get an interview.”
― Cristina De Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

“The book follows the classic structure of a fable, which is always the same, in Greek myths as in the popular legends of every era. Initiation, period of great trials, homecoming, final challenge, death and apotheosis.”
― Cristina De Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend

“America has disappointed me,” she says to an American interviewer during the Vietnam War. “It’s like when you’re completely in love with a person, and you get married, and then, day after day, you realize that the person isn’t as”
― Cristina De Stefano, Oriana Fallaci: The Journalist, the Agitator, the Legend