“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“trouble is, these people don’t understand their own culture,” said” — Geraldine Brooks Culture Copy Share Image
“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.” — Geraldine Brooks Library Copy Share Image
Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks Caverns Copy Share Image
Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can. — Geraldine Brooks Alive Copy Share Image
If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt. — Geraldine Brooks Class Copy Share Image
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid… — Geraldine Brooks Brave Copy Share Image
“Politics needs a certain mental ability,” explained Ahmad Saati, the university’s spokesman. “Very few women have this kind of mind.” I” — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.” — Geraldine Brooks Nature Copy Share Image
“I’ve watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this… — Geraldine Brooks Life Copy Share Image
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“They argued that women of the prophet’s era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The” — Geraldine Brooks Camels Copy Share Image
They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women. — Geraldine Brooks Day of rest Copy Share Image
So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not… — Geraldine Brooks Dark Copy Share Image
“There's a word a friend of mine coined for that feeble gesture we make as if we're going to hold the door,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“So, you are happy to be a pigeon?” “Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at… — Geraldine Brooks Animals Copy Share Image
“Janis Karpinski and a few of the instructors fasted all day along with their troops. “I wanted to show solidarity with them,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world… — 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 Israel Copy Share Image
“Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think… — Geraldine Brooks Bravery Copy Share Image
“girls were subjected to both clito-ridectomy—the excision of the clitoris—and infibulation—the cutting away of the labia and the sealing of the wound… — Geraldine Brooks Scar tissue Copy Share Image
“The author of this text did not write to provoke, but merely to express a truth as he conceives it. Your own… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
“I lifted the latch, and there he stood, dark and tall, the scholar's gown falling from his shoulders like the cloak of… — Geraldine Brooks Flowers Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to… — Geraldine Brooks African american Copy Share Image
“Strip by strip the lash carved into Grace's shuddering flesh. My tears were falling by then, heavy drops, joining in the leaf… — Geraldine Brooks Slavery Copy Share Image
“They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It’s another war, I think.” — Geraldine Brooks Fight Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the… — Geraldine Brooks Bread Copy Share Image
“Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“In either culture, women somehow managed to get the wrong end of the stick. Women bear the brunt of fending off social… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
