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Quotes from The Rage and the Pride — Oriana Fallaci

1929–2006 Italy

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There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

The Rage and the Pride (2002)

Maybe they [women who were executed by the Taliban] were guilty of the worst of all crimes: to laugh. Yes. Laughing. I said laughter. Didn't you know that with the Taliban in Afghanistan women can't laugh, that they are even forbidden to laugh?.

The Rage and the Pride (2002)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oriana Fallaci (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.