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When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings, and books and you research and put a book together the way you would a jigsaw puzzle.

Janine di Giovanni

You Together Puzzle Research

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

Life Good Darkness Mother

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

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People Who Seekers

From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'

Janine di Giovanni

You Age Revenge Think

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

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Memories Rights Rage Civil Rights

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

Life Good Earth Beginning

Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.

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Beautiful People City Living

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

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Me Government Who Days

I have never been embedded with the American army or, you know, with the big war machine.

Janine di Giovanni

War You Army Never

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.

Janine di Giovanni

War Beginning Think Stress

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I never set out to be a journalist. I wanted to be a humanitarian doctor like Albert Schweitzer, working in Africa.

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Doctor Never Africa Like

I did not read newspapers until I became a reporter.

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Reporter Did Until Read

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.

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Love Time Hair Always

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.

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Doctor War Time People

It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.

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Work Mother Bad Who

In a very straightforward way, I am a terrible reporter. I'm not someone who can go into a story and not get involved.

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I Am Way Someone Go

To be a good reporter, writing about war, you have to write about the people. It's not about the tanks or the RPGs or military strategy. It's always about the effect war has on civilians, on society, and how it disrupts and destroys lives.

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Good War You People

Africa is a very dangerous place.

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Dangerous Africa Place Very

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.'

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God People Woman Think

Lake Como has always been a magnet for the elite.

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Always Lake Elite Magnet

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

Me Mother Generation First Child

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

Janine di Giovanni

Family Parents Day Attention

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

You Earth Addiction Baby

Hats, giant shades and 60-plus sunblock are part of my summer repertoire. I don't want wrinkles, but it's skin cancer I truly fear.

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Fear Skin Summer Wrinkles

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.

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Women Family Mother Children

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

Me Doctor Time Long

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