If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for… — Geraldine Brooks Aptitude Copy Share Image
“I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.” — Geraldine Brooks Hate Copy Share Image
“No, no,” he said. “She can’t raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid,… — Geraldine Brooks Cynical Copy Share Image
“I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.” — Geraldine Brooks Female body Copy Share Image
“month—the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to… — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that… — Geraldine Brooks English Copy Share Image
“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty… — Geraldine Brooks Writer Copy Share Image
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully… — 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 Israel Copy Share Image
If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy for people like me”—a diplomat’s son raised abroad and educated in America—“to be totally off base about this country… — Geraldine Brooks Patriotism Copy Share Image
I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude… — Geraldine Brooks Certainty Copy Share Image
“It did not even occur to David to consult Ruti herself about this, or any other matter. Had he done so, he… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I… — Geraldine Brooks Books 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 Failure Copy Share Image
“All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers’ licenses they’d acquired overseas. Many” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.” — Geraldine Brooks Divorce Copy Share Image
“one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.” — Geraldine Brooks Genitals Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn’t… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem… — 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
“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 Extremists Copy Share Image
“Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,… — Geraldine Brooks Adolescence Copy Share Image
“I recognized the tokens of the time, because I had lived through just such another uneasy season, when every day was tainted… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
