Oriana Fallaci Quotes

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• Life is such an effort, Child. It's a war that is renewed each day, and its moments of joy are brief parentheses for which you…
• No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.
• And yet, or just for this reason, it's so fascinating to be a woman. It's an adventure that takes such courage, a challenge that's never…
• I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
• I'll impose upon you the same arrogance that was imposed on me, and on my mother, my grandmother, my grandmother's mother: all the way back…
• One day you and I will have to have a little talk about this business called love. I still don't understand what it's all about.…
• A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will…
• What's the point anyway — Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.
• I leave shreds of my soul on every experience,
• I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to,
• Physical courage is a great test.
• True power does not need arrogance, a long beard and a barking voice. True power strangles you with silk ribbons, charm and intelligence.
• We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century
• 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…
• 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…
• There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from…
• I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can…
• But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.
• Equality ... like freedom, exists only where you are now. Only as an egg in the womb are we all equal.
• To have realized your dream makes you feel lost.

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