“under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.” — Geraldine Brooks Feminism 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 Children Copy Share Image
“As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung… — Geraldine Brooks Autumn Copy Share Image
“She must not speak in a delicate tone. This is from the Koran. Things begun with a few words will continue to… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To” — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she… — Geraldine Brooks Butterfly 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 Islam Copy Share Image
“In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress… — Geraldine Brooks Freedom Copy Share Image
I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
“Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see… — Geraldine Brooks Art Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Fiction Copy Share Image
“Other ayatollahs considered the female voice arousing and barred women from speaking in mixed gatherings unless they first put a stone in… — Geraldine Brooks Female voice Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
“To lessen or destroy sexual pleasure is to lessen temptation; a fallback in case the religious injunctions on veiling and seclusion somehow… — Geraldine Brooks Temptation Copy Share Image
“I had to remind myself that Islam had once swept north as far as the gates of Vienna; that when the haggadah… — Geraldine Brooks Christianity Copy Share Image
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Widespread mutilation seems to have originated in Stone Age central Africa and traveled north, down the Nile, into ancient Egypt. It wasn’t… — Geraldine Brooks Ancient egypt Copy Share Image
“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“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
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks Comedy Copy Share Image
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks Animal Copy Share Image
“It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn’t nearly as great as I’d assumed.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.” — Geraldine Brooks God Copy Share Image
“Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And” — Geraldine Brooks Field hockey Copy Share Image
“I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?” — 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 Islam Copy Share Image
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but… — Geraldine Brooks Ghosts Copy Share Image
“Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some” — Geraldine Brooks Husbands Copy Share Image
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. — Geraldine Brooks Energy Copy Share Image
“And he’d grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“She would have had to keep her headscarf on, never laugh, never smile—if she smiles at a man he will think, ‘Ah,… — Geraldine Brooks Headscarf Copy Share Image
“Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward’s talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.” — Geraldine Brooks Character 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)
