“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“man will silence the voice of his conscience when it suits him to commit sin. But” — Geraldine Brooks Conscience Copy Share Image
“It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us… — Geraldine Brooks Blessing Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Elevation Copy Share Image
“With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of… — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of… — Geraldine Brooks Women Copy Share Image
“A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.” — Geraldine Brooks Easy way Copy Share Image
“Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss--that means to send someone up, make fun of… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Such laws can be even more humiliating for older women. A widowed grandmother, for example, may have to rely on the permission… — Geraldine Brooks Grandmother Copy Share Image
“When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every… — 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
“Swirling a glass of ice splashed with Scotch, the host seemed oblivious to the contradiction between what he’d just finished saying and… — Geraldine Brooks Failed marriage Copy Share Image
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years… — 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 Islam Copy Share Image
“...the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved… — Geraldine Brooks Fiction Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.… — Geraldine Brooks Balkans Copy Share Image
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“He saw his daughter as a kind-hearted, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.” — Geraldine Brooks Life Copy Share Image
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites… — Geraldine Brooks Courage Copy Share Image
“Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary… — Geraldine Brooks Gym Copy Share Image
I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. — Geraldine Brooks Choices Copy Share Image
“In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
“women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.” — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Artifact Copy Share Image
“...the surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve." Bethia… — Geraldine Brooks Death Copy Share Image
“Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.” — Geraldine Brooks Death Copy Share Image
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Women, it says, “manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation. The” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
![“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved my country [Australia], I barely knew it. I'd spent so many years studying the art of our immigrant cultures, and barely any time at all on the one that had been here all along…So I set…” quote by Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/0c2/geraldine-brooks-1324_fiction_it-didn-t-take-me-long-out-there-in-the_2118868.jpg)
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