“With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“What the extremists were doing was entirely contrary to the Koran, which excoriates anyone who impugns a woman’s reputation and sentences them… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam.” It” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“In Muslim societies men’s bodies just weren’t seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women’s. Getting” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“This is Islamic dress—but not to them. According to them, the colors in the embroidery are haram. Where” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“In any case, the manifesto states that a Jew is without honour from the day of his birth. That he cannot differentiate… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The women have been told it’s written in the Koran that they must do these things,” she said. She could tell them… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Until Islam’s articulate spokeswomen such as Rana Kabbani target their misguided coreligionists with the fervor they expend on outside critics, the grave… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite, weak of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To find out,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his eye drop… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years with your… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it doesn't and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but the ghosts… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and your fat-free… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own theologians have… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“So, you are happy to be a pigeon?” “Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at the expense… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the beast will… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
“No, no,” he said. “She can’t raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices. If” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share
