Paris certainly needs to promote itself. Although still the most visited city in the world, it has fallen behind London and Berlin in terms of cool. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I know being pregnant and giving birth is the most wonderful thing on Earth. I know that after you have a baby, there is a sense of addiction, a need to have another. It’s biological. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
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. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
