“You’ve got to get old, because you have nothing to lose. You have this respectability that is given to you, more or less. But you don’t give a damn. It is the ne plus ultra of freedom. And things that I didn’t used to say before—you know, there is in each of us a form of timidity, of cautiousness—now I open my big mouth. I say, ‘What are you going to do to me? You go f— yourself—I say what I want.’ ”

-Oriana Fallaci