Oriana Fallaci Quotes
What is this life by which you, who exist still incomplete, count for more than I, who exist complete already? What is this respect for you that removes respect for me? What is this right of yours to exist that takes no account of my right to exist?
Oriana Fallaci, 1929-2006, Italian Journalist, Letter to a Child Never Born, 1975
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Referring to the fate of his bill in a House-Senate conference committee:
60 years later George Orwell would use the last line in his famous Animal Farm --- See {625338} .
Oriana Fallaci 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 "long, aggressive and revealing interviews" with many world leaders during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.