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Janine di Giovanni
American Journalist
Good Me People Time War You
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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. Janine di Giovanni
You Wonderful Giving Sense Baby Birth Addiction Earth Know Most Another Wonderful Thing Being After Pregnant Being Pregnant Thing Biological Need
Human memory is short and terribly fickle. Janine di Giovanni
Memory Fickle Terribly Human Short
There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people. Janine di Giovanni
Beautiful God Good People World Most Beautiful Joke Feeling Country France Guilty Neighbors Tell About Something Had He Beautiful Country Fair Most French Make French People Up Ended Often Much Created Painful Europeans
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
Beautiful People Wonderful Living Side Siege Muslims City Cosmopolitan Bosnian Poets Writers Beautiful City Hills Came Were Rockets Very Wonderful People Artists Grenades Then Full Medieval
In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations. Janine di Giovanni
War Healing Genocide Reconciliation Ultimate Any Aftermath Aspirations
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. Janine di Giovanni
Life Good Darkness Mother Father First Too Desperately Danger Kids Good Mother Had Pass His Years Five Experienced Wanted Your Trauma Suffocating
In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men. Janine di Giovanni
Life School Old Men Girl Control Married Rural Rural Areas Born Given More Area Go Years Off Pakistan Lives Right Early Basically
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. Janine di Giovanni
Life Good Conflict Writing Beginning Addictive Earth Way Nineties Spent Find Wow About Part Roaming Very Meaningful Deeply Grueling
In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities. Janine di Giovanni
Government Me Everywhere Followed Had Saddam Days Iraq Reported Who Activities
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. Janine di Giovanni
War Stress Recording Beginning Think Something Only Always Existed Aware Earliest Recently
I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa. Janine di Giovanni
Doctor Journalist Out Never Like Africa Wanted Working Humanitarian Albert Set
During war time, when people were injured, I was really frustrated I did not become a doctor. It's painful not being able to save people, witnessing their pain. Janine di Giovanni
War Time People Doctor Become Pain Able Witnessing Were Did Being Frustrated Really Painful Injured Save
In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved. Janine di Giovanni
Way Someone Involved Terrible Am Go Very Get Reporter Story Straightforward Who
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
War Good You People Writing Military Strategy Society Destroys About Civilians Write Always How Tanks Effect Reporter Lives
Africa is a very dangerous place. Janine di Giovanni
Dangerous Dangerous Place Very Africa Place
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
Day Family Parents Rampant Divided Rivalry Attention Still Were Competing Sibling
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 Cancer Wrinkles Skin Summer Giant Hats Shades Part Truly Repertoire Want
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
Time Man Women Church Long Strategy Way Says He Baffled Long Way Developing Clearly How Real Go Intelligent Intelligent Man Pope Marches
It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. Janine di Giovanni
Change Church Latin Longer Mass Catholic Catholic Church Accept Said Years Mourning Hard
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
Me Nuns Brothers Small Small Child Priests Educated Were Wondered Child Subservient Who Even Why
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons - to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world. Janine di Giovanni
Knowledge World Mind Parents Young Disclosure Feminist Cease Up Expand Child Get Being Soak Literature Full Reasons Many Away Eager University
Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners. Janine di Giovanni
Increasingly Earner Manhattan Available Less
No one lives on credit in France because banks don't allow overdrafts and zero percent credit cards do not exist. Janine di Giovanni
France Percent Allow No-One Because Exist Banks Lives Zero Credit Credit Cards Cards
In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave. Janine di Giovanni
People Better Job Too France No-One Know Always Till Go Than America Get Going After Them Who Grave

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