All Janine di Giovanni Quotes
- Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. Easter
- My role [as a war correspondent] is to bring a voice to people who are voiceless [and] to shine a light in the darkest corners… Bring
- When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a… Book
- My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. Civil
- I spent a good part of the nineties roaming the Earth writing about conflict. It was very grueling. I was beginning to find this way… Addictive
- Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living… Artists
- In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. Activities
- I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine. American
- I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa. Africa
- I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter. Became
- Africa is a very dangerous place. Africa
- Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite. Been
- My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at… Came
- My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove… All
- Human memory is short and terribly fickle. Fickle
- Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back. Catholic
- The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a… Baffled
- Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. Brothers
- The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be. Fact
- Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature… Cease
- When I did a year-long study in 2005 of European countries integrating Muslims into their cultures, France came in the lowest of the rank. Sweden… Behind
- In Paris, where I live, the inner neighborhoods are only available to the white elite. The poor and dispossessed are shuffled out to suburbs and… Available
- Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners. Available
- Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was… Any
- I often think I am a better person because I lived for many years of my life with a flashlight. I have developed skills I… Bathing