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
If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt. — Geraldine Brooks Class 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
“But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.” — Geraldine Brooks Nature 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
“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
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Elevation 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
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
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
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
“So, you are happy to be a pigeon?” “Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at… — Geraldine Brooks Animals 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
“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
“Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism 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
“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
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
“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
“Strip by strip the lash carved into Grace's shuddering flesh. My tears were falling by then, heavy drops, joining in the leaf… — Geraldine Brooks Slavery Copy Share Image
“Swirling a glass of ice splashed with Scotch, the host seemed oblivious to the contradiction between what he’d just finished saying and… — Geraldine Brooks Failed marriage Copy Share Image
“While I would champion any campaign to support Muslim women who do not wish to cover. I would now also protest vigorously… — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It’s another war, I think.” — Geraldine Brooks War Copy Share Image
“This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.” — Geraldine Brooks Talons Copy Share Image
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it… — Geraldine Brooks Crap Copy Share Image
“A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.” — Geraldine Brooks Easy way 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
“Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.” — Geraldine Brooks Life Copy Share Image
I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them. — Geraldine Brooks Choices Copy Share Image
“In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites… — Geraldine Brooks Courage 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
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand. — Geraldine Brooks Artifact Copy Share Image
“women had been sent back home, to manufacture male babies and avoid waste in household expenditures.” — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you,… — Geraldine Brooks Behind you Copy Share Image
