“Women, it says, “manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation. The” — Geraldine Brooks Women Says 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
“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
“It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn’t nearly as great as I’d assumed.” — Geraldine Brooks Nephew 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
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Book 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
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very… — Geraldine Brooks Capacity Copy Share Image
“What the extremists were doing was entirely contrary to the Koran, which excoriates anyone who impugns a woman’s reputation and sentences them… — Geraldine Brooks Extremists Copy Share Image
“Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn’t… — Geraldine Brooks Gagged Floor Copy Share Image
I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare,… — Geraldine Brooks Airports Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy for people like me”—a diplomat’s son raised abroad and educated in America—“to be totally off base about this country… — Geraldine Brooks Patriotism Copy Share Image
Writing is like bricklaying; you put down one word after another. Sometimes the wall goes up straight and true and sometimes it… — Geraldine Brooks One word Copy Share Image
“The women have been told it’s written in the Koran that they must do these things,” she said. She could tell them… — Geraldine Brooks Israel Copy Share Image
“I asked once, and the library assistant told me there were more than a hundred thousand books there, and more than sixty… — Geraldine Brooks Writer 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 book has survived the same human disaster over and over again. Think about it. You've got a society where people tolerate… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved… — Geraldine Brooks Fiction Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Able 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.” — Geraldine Brooks Feminism 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
“one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.” — Geraldine Brooks Genitals Copy Share Image
“You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall… — Geraldine Brooks Thoughtful Copy Share Image
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. — Geraldine Brooks Common 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
“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
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
“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.” — Geraldine Brooks Character Copy Share Image
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks Gals 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
“She would have had to keep her headscarf on, never laugh, never smile—if she smiles at a man he will think, ‘Ah,… — Geraldine Brooks Headscarf Copy Share Image
“It galls me, when I catch a stray remark from the master, or between the older English pupils, to the effect that… — Geraldine Brooks English Copy Share Image
“Other ayatollahs considered the female voice arousing and barred women from speaking in mixed gatherings unless they first put a stone in… — Geraldine Brooks Female voice Copy Share Image
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