More than being a journalist, she herself was an author. At the age of 77, Oriana Fallaci died in her own country in Florence, Italy.

A woman of no fear, she has come face to face with so many known leaders and celebrities such as Henry Kissinger, the Shah of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, Lech Wałęsa, Willy Brandt, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Walter Cronkite, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Federico Fellini, Sammy Davis Jr, Deng Xiaoping, Nguyen Cao Ky, Yasir Arafat, Indira Gandhi, Alexandros Panagoulis, Wernher von Braun, Archbishop Makarios, Golda Meir, Nguyen Van Thieu, Haile Selassie and Sean Connery.

She dared to ask questions not all journalist would ever ask. Her interview techniques spur controversies. She is known for her abrasive interviewing tactics, yet she denies she is what critics . She has authored books that spoke of her obsession on death, uncolored and written in naked truth.

Fallaci started to write naive short stories when she was nine, but she claims her writing began when at 16, she became a reporter in Florence. She belonged to a liberal and politically engaged poor family which she accords pushed her to journalism and becoming a writer.

More so, being a woman has propelled her to what she has become. She claims , “... I sometimes wonder if the most motivating factor has not been the fact of being born a woman and poor. When you are a woman, you have to fight more. Consequently, to see more and to think more and to be more creative. The same, when you were born poor. Survival is a great pusher."

Fallaci set so much commitment in her writing. She wakes early and can go on writing all day without pausing except for smoking 55 pieces of cigarette. So much she puts into her writing, holidays and weekends are no of importance to her. Relentless, she takes her writing seriously even to the point of obsession rewriting her articles every now and then.

Her works speak of a writer's greater duty not only to one's self, to literature but even to society. She spoke courageously through her pen. Among her works include:A Man, The Seven Sins of Hollywood, The Useless Sex: Voyage around the Woman, Penelope at War, Limelighters, The Egotists: Sixteen Suprising Interviews, Quel giorno sulla Luna, Inshallah, If the Sun Dies, Interview with History, Letter to a child never born, Nothing so Be It, Oriana Fallaci intervista Oriana Fallaci, The Rage and The Pride, The Force of Reason and Oriana Fallaci intervista sé stessa – L'Apocalisse.

She leaves us with outstanding insights as a journalist, and interviewer, and a writer.

"A journalist lives history in the best of ways, that is in the moment that history takes place. He lives history, he touches history with his hands, looks at it with his eyes, he listens to it with his ears." - To Jordan Bonfante, Time contributor

"I am the judge. I am the one who decides. Listen: if I am a painter and I do your portrait, have I or haven't I the right to paint you as I want?"-To Jonathan Cott in a Rolling Stone interview

"On every professional experience I leave shreds of my heart and soul; and I participate in what I see or hear as though the matter concerned me personally and were one on which I ought to take a stand (in fact I always take one, based on a specific moral choice)." -- Preface to Interview with History

“A writer needs time to be tested in his/her value. Having success in life means nothing. Success in life has too much to do with fashion, publicity, and so on. A writer stays a writer after his death or many years after his/her books were published. Also, a writer is a writer when his work goes beyond the limits and frontiers of the language he/she writes in. Because a writer must be universal, timeless, and spaceless." -- Oriana Fallaci

“...to die a little less when I die. To leave the children I did not have... . To make people think a little more, outside the dogmas that this society has nourished us with through centuries. To give stories and ideas that help people to see better, to think better, to know a little more. Then what? Writing is my way of expression. Therefore, a need." - Oriana Fallaci