“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
“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 you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs… — Geraldine Brooks Been 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
...The hagaddah came to Sarajevo for a reason. It was here to test us, to see if there were people who could… — Geraldine Brooks Catholic 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
“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
“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
“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
“They argued that women of the prophet’s era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The” — Geraldine Brooks 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
“At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am… — Geraldine Brooks Growing up Copy Share Image
“Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul… — Geraldine Brooks Brotherhood Copy Share Image
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less… — Geraldine Brooks Cross 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
“It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us… — Geraldine Brooks Gratitude 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
One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as… — Geraldine Brooks Believe Copy Share Image
“These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in… — Geraldine Brooks Grief 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 Artifacts 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 Time Copy Share Image
“West Bank women’s groups argued that the time wasn’t right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before… — Geraldine Brooks Freedom Copy Share Image
