“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
“From there, the future is a place that looks darker every day.” — Geraldine Brooks Darker 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
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. — Geraldine Brooks Attitude Copy Share Image
“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Acid Copy Share Image
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks Certainty 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
“man will silence the voice of his conscience when it suits him to commit sin. But” — Geraldine Brooks Conscience Copy Share Image
“Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might… — Geraldine Brooks Raped Copy Share Image
“In either culture, women somehow managed to get the wrong end of the stick. Women bear the brunt of fending off social… — Geraldine Brooks Women Managed Copy Share Image
“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.” — Geraldine Brooks Drowning Copy Share Image
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the… — Geraldine Brooks Bread 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
“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
“When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every… — Geraldine Brooks Fire 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
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Affected 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 Black 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 Insult 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 About Copy Share Image
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world… — Geraldine Brooks Brightness 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 Factual Copy Share Image
“Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to… — Geraldine Brooks African american Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks Absent 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
“girls were subjected to both clito-ridectomy—the excision of the clitoris—and infibulation—the cutting away of the labia and the sealing of the wound… — Geraldine Brooks Scar tissue Copy Share Image
“I lifted the latch, and there he stood, dark and tall, the scholar's gown falling from his shoulders like the cloak of… — Geraldine Brooks Flowers 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
“In any case, the manifesto states that a Jew is without honour from the day of his birth. That he cannot differentiate… — Geraldine Brooks Israel 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 reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin… — Geraldine Brooks Desire Copy Share Image
“I did note this, and set it down as yet one more of life’s injustices: that the man who has been wealthy… — Geraldine Brooks Creditors 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
“[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
“I have now traveled so far south that I find myself come to a place where our common expression “white as snow”… — Geraldine Brooks Nature 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
“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
![“[The haggadah] was made to teach, and it will continue to teach. And it might teach a lot more than just the Exodus story." What do you mean?" Well, from what you've told me, the book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people…” quote by Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/19d/geraldine-brooks-1324_books_the-haggadah-was-made-to-teach-and-it-wi_2068588.jpg)
