Janine di Giovanni Quotes
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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 Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.
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In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
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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.
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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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It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
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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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Stockholm is surely an urban planner's dream. Everything works. Everything looks good.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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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.
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My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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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.
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Human memory is short and terribly fickle.
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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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The fact is, feminism is not what it used to be.
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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.'
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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.
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Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.
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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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Every time I went to the doctor when I was in my twenties, he repeated the same thing to me: don't wait too long to have children.
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Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.