Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. — Geraldine Brooks Big Copy Share Image
“trouble is, these people don’t understand their own culture,” said” — Geraldine Brooks Culture Copy Share Image
“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Acid Copy Share Image
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
“And he’d grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.” — Geraldine Brooks Cactus Grows 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 Clap 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
“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 Koran Things 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
“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
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
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition 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
“It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
“the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against “honor” killings but also against forced marriages and… — Geraldine Brooks Habits Copy Share Image
“If Islamic countries can’t come up with their own principles for women’s competition,” she said in one widely reported speech, “then the… — Geraldine Brooks Iran Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite,… — Geraldine Brooks Compassion 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 Advise 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 Every day 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 Cheat 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 Book learning Copy Share Image
“My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem… — Geraldine Brooks Kindness Copy Share Image
I was really interested in how marriages work, how you can, you know, be in love with somebody and spend many years… — Geraldine Brooks Deals 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
“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
“Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some” — Geraldine Brooks Husbands 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
“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
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
“He saw his daughter as a kind-hearted, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it… — Geraldine Brooks About Copy Share Image
“A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.” — Geraldine Brooks Easy way Copy Share Image
“Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary… — Geraldine Brooks Gym Copy Share Image
“In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“I’ve watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this… — Geraldine Brooks Life Copy Share Image
