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All Quotes by author - Janine di Giovanni
" Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. "
Life
New Life
New
" Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. "
Educated
Child
Why
" Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back. "
Time
Giant
Back
" For the first five years of Luca's life, I desperately wanted to be a good mother and not to pass on this trauma and darkness that his father and I had experienced, but there's a danger of suffocating your kids, too. "
Mother
Life
Good
" 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.' "
You
Blonde
Going
" 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. "
Wrinkles
Want
Summer
" Human memory is short and terribly fickle. "
Short
Human
Fickle
" I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter. "
Read
Did
Reporter
" I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine. "
War
You
Never
" 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. "
Earth
Baby
You
" I love magazines. I always read 'Time,' 'Newsweek' and 'The Economist.' When I get my hair cut, French 'Vogue,' French 'Elle,' 'Paris Match' - I read them all in 10 minutes. "
Love
Always
Hair
" I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa. "
Like
Never
Africa
" In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. "
Who
Days
Activities
" In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. "
Healing
War
Genocide
" 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 of life was, wow, addictive and deeply meaningful. "
Life
Good
Writing
" It is a well known urban myth that the French don't trust banks and store their money under their mattress. It's not that they are tight with money - they just don't trust anyone. "
Myth
Just
Money
" Little changes can start to make a difference in the world. "
World
Start
Changes
" My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. "
Memories
Civil Rights
Rights
" Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom. "
Serbia
Freedom
Other
" No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist. "
Cards
France
Credit
" Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it. "
Stress
Beginning
Think
" 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. "
People
Living
Side
" Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention. "
Attention
Day
Family
" Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good. "
Looks
Good
Everything
" There are people who are seekers and people who aren't. "
People
Seekers
Who
" 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. "
Together
You
Book
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