I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
Oriana FallaciRead
I leave shreds of my soul on every experience.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the profound impact experiences have on our emotional and spiritual selves.
Oriana Fallaci suggests that every experience we encounter leaves a lasting mark on our psyche, infusing part of ourselves into those moments. It highlights how our interactions, challenges, and learning processes contribute to our identity and personal growth, illustrating the deep connection between our experiences and our soul.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth.
I know ours is a world made by men for men, their dictatorship is so ancient it even extends to language.
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.
You cannot govern, you cannot administrate, with an ignoramus.
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.
I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.
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.
We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.
My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.
Life once conceived, must be protected with the utmost care; abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.
... And the boy whose hair remained the color of lemons forever.
I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living.
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