Oriana Fallaci's Death

The journalist Oriana Fallaci died at the age of 77. Here is all you want to know, and more!

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Famous for her wartime interviews of such leaders as U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, and even North Vietnamese military leader Vo Nguyen Giap, this Italian journalist won numerous honors, including the Viareggio Prize, the Prix Antibes, and the Bancarella Prize.

She was born and raised in Florence, Italy, and she died of lung cancer in her hometown at the age of seventy-seven. During the 1970s, she was romantically involved with Greek politician Alexandros Panagoulis.

Despite being an atheist, in The Force of Reason, she claimed that she was also a “Christian atheist”. Fallaci died on 15 September 2006, in her native Florence, from cancer.

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You cannot survive if you do not know the past.

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I didn’t want to kill a man. I’m not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.

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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?

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You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.

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This Islam business kidnapped me.