Quotes by Janine di Giovanni

About Janine di Giovanni:

Janine di Giovanni is an author, award-winning foreign correspondent, and current Middle East editor at Newsweek. She is a regular contributor to The Times, Vanity Fair, Granta, The New York Times, and The Guardian. Di Giovanni is also a consultant on Syria for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and a Senior Policy Manager/Advisor at the Centre for Conflict, Resolution and Recovery for the School of Public Policy at Central European University.
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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.

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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 ...

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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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Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.

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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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Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

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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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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.

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

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Any protester knows that the only way activism works is to get the people on your side.

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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.

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Africa is a very dangerous place.

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Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.

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

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

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I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

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In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

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My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42.

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The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.

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When the body breaks down, it does not all go at once; it goes piece by piece.

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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 never seen.

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Author Bio

  • NameJanine di Giovanni
  • DescriptionAmerican journalist
  • Born1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWar Correspondent; Journalist