Italian journalist (1929–2006)
She made world leaders squirm. Oriana Fallaci's interviews in the '60s, '70s, and '80s were long, confrontational, and often brutal — Henry Kissinger called his "the single most disastrous conversation" he ever had with press.
Fallaci joined the Italian resistance as a teenager during World War II, then built a career covering war and revolution from the ground. In 1968, Mexican soldiers shot her three times and left her for dead; she survived and kept returning to conflict zones. Her book Interview with History collected sit-downs with figures like Indira Gandhi, Golda Meir, Yasser Arafat, the Shah of Iran, and Ruhollah Khomeini — encounters that became notorious for how far she pushed. After retiring in New York, the September 11th attacks pulled her back: she wrote articles and books sharply critical of Islam tha…
Sourced, dated quotes from Oriana Fallaci
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...
If you put a pistol against my head and ask which I think is worse, Muslims or Mexicans, I'd have to think a moment, then I'd say the Muslims because they've broken my balls.
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.
People like me who have passion are derided: 'Ha ha ha! She's hysterical!' 'She's very passionate!' Listen how the Americans speak about me: 'A very passionate Italian.
Americans," she said, repeating for me something she told the , "you have taught me this stupid word: cool. Cool, cool, cool! Coolness, coolness, you've got to be cool. Coolness!
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