Quotes from Oriana Fallaci

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

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

Love isn't putting chain on someone who wants to struggle and is ready to die for it, love is letting him die in the way he's chosen.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

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

Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?

I love soldiers. They are my kids, they are my children.

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 pay a cruel price.

With our progress we have destroyed our only weapon against tedium: that rare weakness we call imagination.

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.

But here's what I've learned in this war, in this country, in this city: to love the miracle of having been born.

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

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.

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

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

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.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

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

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

Glory is a heavy burden, a murdering poison, and to bear it is an art. And to have that art is rare.

This Islam business kidnapped me.

I no longer have the energy to get really angry, like I used to.

Physical courage is a great test.