Oriana Fallaci was partisan in the Italian resistance in World War II and a lifelong leftist, she once became so disgusted while interviewing Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that she ripped off her head scarf and threw it in his face.
Her book The Rage and the Pride has been vilified and <a href=book The Rage and the Pride has been vilified in Europe, for daring to tell the truth about Islam’s hatred of the West. Islamic groups have tried to have her arrested, and her book banned. suffering from cancer, she's always been a corageous and controversial journalist. She wrote on space exploration, When the Sun Dies.

-p (bring on more fiesty smart Italian women)