“The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six… — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause… — Geraldine Brooks Sunset Copy Share Image
“We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the… — Geraldine Brooks Future Copy Share Image
“It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've… — 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 Courage Copy Share Image
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less… — Geraldine Brooks Cross Copy Share Image
God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my… — Geraldine Brooks Freedom Copy Share Image
“fundamentalists asked that a male answer questions directed to her, on the grounds that a woman’s voice is too alluring to be… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling… — Geraldine Brooks Dad Copy Share Image
“At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
“The practice of mutilating women’s genitals in Eritrea predated the arrival of both religions, and for hundreds of years neither faith had… — Geraldine Brooks Religion Copy Share Image
“The heat of late afternoon closed in around us like an animate thing; you could feel it on your skin, warm and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of… — Geraldine Brooks Bible Copy Share Image
“It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn’t wish to emulate him in something so… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
“Christian worship of Jesus is an idolatry much worse than the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf, for the Christians err in… — Geraldine Brooks Christian worship 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 Catholic Copy Share Image
“Often the women are burned, so that the death can be passed off as an accident. The killer usually becomes a local… — Geraldine Brooks Death Copy Share Image
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.'… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The drill sergeants learned that lavishly praising recruits who got it right worked better than abusing those who got it wrong. The… — Geraldine Brooks Drill sergeant Copy Share Image
“For these women, Hamas’s view of women was laughable. And since they couldn’t hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“The snow light flared on brightness. Blue: intense as a midsummer sky, obtained from grinding precious lapis lazuli carried by camel caravan… — Geraldine Brooks Snow Copy Share Image
“How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace… — Geraldine Brooks Remembering Copy Share Image
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his… — Geraldine Brooks Heavens Copy Share Image
“We’re seeing a rise in the school dropout rate for girls because their families’ incomes are falling and girls’ schooling is the… — Geraldine Brooks Education Copy Share Image
“As to secrets, Father, I have but one: if the congregation expects a sermon of forty minutes’ length, then give them one… — Geraldine Brooks Parenting Copy Share Image
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“West Bank women’s groups argued that the time wasn’t right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — 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 Bedouin Copy Share Image
“they knew that what they hoped for from the operation was to safeguard their daughters’ chastity, because upon that chastity depended the… — Geraldine Brooks Parenting Copy Share Image
“The old man was appalled by the prospect of women driving. He clapped a bony hand to his heart and gazed heavenward:… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Rehab had been cursed indeed. There was no way Mohamed could have raised the money to buy his secret stash of gold… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Amnesty Copy Share Image
