60 Quotes by Janine Di Giovanni

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.'

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.

Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

Sibling rivalry was, and still is to this day, rampant in my family. We were all competing for my parents' divided attention.

I'm not sure that finding a husband at university made me any less of a feminist or an academic. I still soaked up Susan Faludi; I still read Doris Lessing. But I did it at the same time I met someone who I felt was my soulmate.

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.

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

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

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.