Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work...... Quote by "Janine di Giovanni"

Nonviolence worked in Serbia, and it can work in other countries seeking their freedom.
— Janine di Giovanni

Other Quotes by "Janine di Giovanni"

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.
— Janine di Giovanni

Tags: mother, darkness, good, life

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

Tags: small, child, who, me

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

Tags: someone, husband, time, me

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.
— Janine di Giovanni

Tags: way, beginning, good, life

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

Tags: children, mother, family, women