IM: Oriana Fallaci

Posted on September 15th, 2006 by .
Categories: Misc. News.

Oriana Fallaci died. The New Yorker had a very nice interview with her

“You’ve got to get old, because you have nothing to lose,” she said over lunch that afternoon. “You have this respectability that is given to you, more or less. But you don’t give a damn. It is the ne plus ultra of freedom. And things that I didn’t used to say before—you know, there is in each of us a form of timidity, of cautiousness—now I open my big mouth. I say, ‘What are you going to do to me? You go fuck yourself—I say what I want.’ ”

2 comments.

irisblue

Comment on September 16th, 2006.

Ha! I didn’t know you had to be old to do that ????

martijn

Comment on September 16th, 2006.

Some of us do I guess 🙂 Fortunately, for her, she realized it before her death

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