Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. — Geraldine Brooks Big 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
“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.” — Geraldine Brooks Adam Copy Share Image
“trouble is, these people don’t understand their own culture,” said” — Geraldine Brooks Culture 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
“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
“under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.” — Geraldine Brooks Feminism 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
“This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.” — Geraldine Brooks Description Copy Share Image
“women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To” — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“In Muslim societies men’s bodies just weren’t seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women’s. Getting” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she… — Geraldine Brooks Butterfly 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 Every day 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 Clouded 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
“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
“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 Blue Fights 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
All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather… — Geraldine Brooks Anger Copy Share Image
What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did… — Geraldine Brooks Ballots 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 think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black… — Geraldine Brooks Black Copy Share Image
“I had to remind myself that Islam had once swept north as far as the gates of Vienna; that when the haggadah… — Geraldine Brooks Christianity Copy Share Image
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks 1960s Copy Share Image
“Widespread mutilation seems to have originated in Stone Age central Africa and traveled north, down the Nile, into ancient Egypt. It wasn’t… — Geraldine Brooks Ancient egypt 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
“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 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 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 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 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
![“[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)
