Janine di Giovanni Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

“The pope is an intelligent man and realizes that time marches on. He says the Church has a long way to go in developing a real strategy that integrates women - but clearly he is baffled as to how to do it.”

“There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.”

“Posttraumatic stress is something that's always existed. I think that the earliest recording was during the Trojan War, but it's only recently that we're beginning to be aware of it.”

“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.”

“Africa is a very dangerous place.”

“In Iraq during the days of Saddam, I had a government minder who followed me everywhere, reported on my activities.”

“Manhattan is increasingly less available to average-income earners.”

“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.”

“I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.”