I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
Oriana FallaciRead
A lot of women ask themselves why they should bring a child into the world? So that it will be hungry, so that it will be cold, so that it will be betrayed and humiliated, so that it will be slaughtered by war or disease? They reject the hope that its hunger will be satisfied, its cold warmed, that loyalty and respect will accompany it through life, that it will be a devote a life to the effort to eliminate war and disease.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects on the struggles and potential suffering of bringing a child into the world, countered by the hope for a better future.
Oriana Fallaci's quote addresses the profound question many women face regarding motherhood in a troubled world. It juxtaposes the harsh realities and uncertainties of life, such as hunger, cold, betrayal, and the potential for violence, against an acknowledgment of hope and the possibility of a child's life being committed to positive change and the pursuit of a better world. Fallaci emphasizes the importance of hope and the belief that, despite life's challenges, love, warmth, and altruism can prevail.
Themes
MotherhoodHopeLifeStruggleFuture
In practice
Example use cases
A speaker at a women's conference about the joys and challenges of motherhood.
More from Oriana Fallaci
All quotes βI know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
Oriana FallaciRead
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
Oriana FallaciRead
What are the symbols of American strength, wealth, power and modernity? Certainly not jazz and rock and roll, not chewing-gum or hamburgers, Broadway or Hollywood. It's their skyscrapers. Their Pentagon. Their science. Their technology.
Oriana FallaciRead
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
Oriana FallaciRead
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where in Europe can you find old Hungary, old Russia, old France, old Italy? In Europe you're trying to copy America, you're almost American. But here you'll find Europeans who immigrated a hundred years ago - and we haven't spoiled them. Oh, Gio! You must see why I love New York. Because the whole world's in New York.
Oriana FallaciRead
Similar quotes
A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses
John MiltonRead
Ecology and spirituality are fundamentally connected, because deep ecological awareness, ultimately, is spiritual awareness.
Fritjof CapraRead
Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of time.
Philip YanceyRead
Insanity hovered close at hand, like an eager waiter at an expensive restaurant.
Arundhati RoyRead
I always liked the idea that America is a big facade. We are all insects crawling across on the shiny hood of a Cadillac. We're all looking at the wrapping. But we won't tear the wrapping to see what lies beneath.
Tom WaitsRead
Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded,_x000D_ but is commanded because it is beneficial.
Benjamin FranklinRead