Top 55 Quotes by Janine di Giovanni

About Janine di Giovanni

These are some quotes by American author Janine di Giovanni Journalist.

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.'

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.'

Janine di Giovanni

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Janine di Giovanni

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

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

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.

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.

Janine di Giovanni

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

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

Janine di Giovanni

It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.

It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.

Janine di Giovanni

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