Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
It’s hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jesuit priests who educated my brothers. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
Full disclosure: I went to university as an eager young feminist for many reasons – to get away from my parents, to soak up literature and knowledge, to cease being a child, to expand my mind and my world. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
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. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I love magazines. I always read ‘Time,’ ‘Newsweek’ and ‘The Economist.’ When I get my hair cut, French ‘Vogue,’ French ‘Elle,’ ‘Paris Match’ – I read them all in 10 minutes. Janine di Giovanni Read Quote
