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" No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist. "

Janine di Giovanni

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" Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom. "

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. "

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" Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good. "

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" 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. "

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" Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life. "

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" Little changes can start to make a difference in the world. "

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" 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. "

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" I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa. "

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" I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine. "

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" Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention. "

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" 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. "

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" In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. "

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" 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.' "

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" 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. "

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" I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter. "

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" Human memory is short and terribly fickle. "

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" 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. "

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" There are people who are seekers and people who aren't. "

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" Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. "

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