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Janine di Giovanni

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
— Janine di Giovanni war
Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
— Janine di Giovanni life
Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
— Janine di Giovanni memory
It's always disappointing to come across phony do-gooders. And it's easy to scoff at celebrities working in war zones.
— Janine di Giovanni war
Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.
— Janine di Giovanni family
Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.
— Janine di Giovanni
Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
— Janine di Giovanni work
Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.
— Janine di Giovanni fear
I see so many people get so wrapped up in wanting to get a bigger SUV or a bigger house. But then I think, 'My God, I could have been born a woman in the Congo.'
— Janine di Giovanni people
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 did not think were possible - bathing with a cup of water by candlelight, for instance, and writing a story with a headlamp on.
— Janine di Giovanni life
To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.
— Janine di Giovanni writing
From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'
— Janine di Giovanni art
Once Iraq became a hot bed for kidnapping, reporters had to use every kind of trick they could manage to avoid it. This included chase cars, security men for more prosperous agencies and networks, and GPS signals on satellite phones that could pinpoint the journalist's locations.
— Janine di Giovanni work
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It's biological.
— Janine di Giovanni art
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 their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.
— Janine di Giovanni women
Occupy Wall Street was a disorganized movement without a clear focus and power base - essential in any successful revolution - but the message was clear: the divisions between those who are fortunate enough to enjoy city living as opposed to those who find it unbearable are too wide.
— Janine di Giovanni success
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 real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.
— Janine di Giovanni women
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 was not far behind, though, which is worrying, as racism in France is much closer to the bone.
— Janine di Giovanni culture
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 side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
— Janine di Giovanni art
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 together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.
— Janine di Giovanni books
Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
— Janine di Giovanni freedom
Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.
— Janine di Giovanni people
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers.
— Janine di Giovanni wonder
I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.
— Janine di Giovanni work
It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
— Janine di Giovanni work

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