“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Acid Copy Share Image
“How little we know, I thought, of the people we live amongst.” — Geraldine Brooks Thought Copy Share Image
“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.” — Geraldine Brooks Adult life Copy Share Image
“trouble is, these people don’t understand their own culture,” said” — Geraldine Brooks Culture Copy Share Image
“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.” — Geraldine Brooks Adam 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
“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.” — Geraldine Brooks Business Copy Share Image
“You can ask for things, but you can’t just reach out and take things as if it’s your right.” A” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul… — Geraldine Brooks Brother Copy Share Image
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks Generally Copy Share Image
“It is this notion of women’s barely controllable lust that often lies behind justifications for clito-ridectomy, seclusion and veiling.” — Geraldine Brooks Lust 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 Betray 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
“I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve,… — Geraldine Brooks Grief Copy Share Image
“Women of all ages are in-fantilized by the Saudi system. A woman, no matter how old, has to be able to show… — Geraldine Brooks Permission Copy Share Image
“To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home—to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks Baroque Copy Share Image
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks Afternoon 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 Arabic 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 Adopting 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 Caps Copy Share Image
“These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in… — Geraldine Brooks Grief Copy Share Image
I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for… — Geraldine Brooks Amount Copy Share Image
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake… — Geraldine Brooks Beautiful Copy Share Image
And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the… — Geraldine Brooks Children 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
“I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me… — Geraldine Brooks Bible Copy Share Image
“The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To… — Geraldine Brooks Shooting range 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
“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry,… — Geraldine Brooks First time Copy Share Image
“He had scooped up another handful of sand and stared at each grain as it fell through his fingers. 'You are like… — Geraldine Brooks Colonisation Copy Share Image
“I picked up scallop shells in diverse colors and sizes — warm reds and yellows; cool, stippled grays — and reflected on… — Geraldine Brooks Creation Copy Share Image
“I am not alone in this. I only let him do to me what men have ever done to women: march off… — Geraldine Brooks Cried Copy Share Image
Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. — Geraldine Brooks Big 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
