“Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some” — Geraldine Brooks Marriage 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
“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
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Book 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
“She must not speak in a delicate tone. This is from the Koran. Things begun with a few words will continue to… — Geraldine Brooks 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 remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.” — Geraldine Brooks Character 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.” — Geraldine Brooks Easy way 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 Islam 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
“But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.” — Geraldine Brooks Nature 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 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 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
Both my parents loved words. That was the big deal in our house. — Geraldine Brooks Big Copy Share Image
“In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“trouble is, these people don’t understand their own culture,” said” — Geraldine Brooks Culture 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 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
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
