Janine di Giovanni Quotes

My own mother, my sister and nearly all the women in my family had full-time jobs as mothers. They were wonderful at it. They drove their children back and forth to soccer, skating lessons, piano lessons, private schools, but I sensed, even in my own mother, a kind of distant dissatisfaction.

Janine di Giovanni

• Time
• Women
• Children

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

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
• Writing

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

Janine di Giovanni

• People

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
• Summer
• Cancer

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

Janine di Giovanni

• American
• War
• Army

Africa is a very dangerous place.

Janine di Giovanni