I had to digest that statement for a while. I can't think of anyway more concise and powerful to describe her. We've really lost someone special, but we can take this as a call to arms of sorts to follow in her stead.
One last bit of info on Oriana
(AGI) - Florence, Sept. 16 - Oriana Fallaci's last wish was to see the sea again "but she was already at a clinic in Florence and unfortunately we were not able to satisfy her wish," said the president of the regional council of Tuscany, Riccardo Nencini. Nencini, who was present in front of the Santa Chiara clinic to give his last goodbye to Oriana Fallaci, who died the day before yesterday, then mentioned his last meetings with the writer. "I spoke with her three time. The first time in New York in February, but she told me 'I am dying I want to return to Florence to die.' The second time in mid-June in Florence during a meeting that last all afternoon until late at night and she told me 'I won't make it to the end of summer, I want to go back to NY but I want to return to die here. I want to return to see the big Cupola, the river, and especially the tower of Manelli because that is where I brought the parachuted bombs from the allies in a salad basket. Find me a house here.' Then the last time I heard from her, a few days before she arrived in Florence, was a very brief telephone all. She told me, 'I have to hang up, I am about to die. I want to remember you like the last time we saw each other' and then she hung up. Nencini then underlined how Florence lost "an extraordinarily combative woman, firm in defending her ideas, very skinny and tormented but also very passionate. I still remember her with those two penetrating blue eyes." And finally the president of the regional council described Florence as "a unique city, it is religious and secular at the same time. Many Florentines prefer to remember her anonymously; even the institutions are doing it. All the international media remembers Oriana Fallaci as the most important war correspondent, journalist and writer of the second half of the 20th century. We will remember her in the regional Council on Tuesday and with other initiatives," Nencini concluded. (AGI) .