Janine di Giovanni quotes

Human memory is short and terribly fickle. (Janine di Giovanni)

In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.

Janine di Giovanni

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

Janine di Giovanni

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

Janine di Giovanni

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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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

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