“In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress… — Geraldine Brooks Freedom Copy Share Image
“Who are we, really? Are our souls shaped, our fates written in full by God, before we draw our first breath? Do… — Geraldine Brooks Selves Copy Share Image
“The drill sergeants learned that lavishly praising recruits who got it right worked better than abusing those who got it wrong. The… — Geraldine Brooks Drill sergeant Copy Share Image
Yes, the small village that we live in, in Virginia, is a very interesting place, in terms of its Civil War history,… — Geraldine Brooks Because 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
“For these women, Hamas’s view of women was laughable. And since they couldn’t hear the appeal of such views themselves, they were… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism 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
“It astonished me that Muslims, who put such store on emulation of their prophet, didn’t wish to emulate him in something so… — Geraldine Brooks Children 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
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
“So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks Anna Copy Share Image
“You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and… — Geraldine Brooks Cheat Copy Share Image
“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude… — Geraldine Brooks Certainty Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know… — Geraldine Brooks Advise Copy Share Image
“Is it ever thus, at the end of things? Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
“Does any woman ever count the grains of her harvest and say: Good enough? Or does one always think of what more… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
“The heat of late afternoon closed in around us like an animate thing; you could feel it on your skin, warm and… — Geraldine Brooks Late afternoon Copy Share Image
“The two most sacred documents known to man are the Bible and the Declaration of Independence. Better that a whole generation of… — Geraldine Brooks Bible Copy Share Image
“fundamentalists asked that a male answer questions directed to her, on the grounds that a woman’s voice is too alluring to be… — Geraldine Brooks Business Copy Share Image
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was… — Geraldine Brooks Away 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 Committed 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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 was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than… — Geraldine Brooks Anything Copy Share Image
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal… — Geraldine Brooks Cancer Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite,… — Geraldine Brooks Compassion 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
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks Attempting 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 Feminism 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 Iran 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
“He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where… — Geraldine Brooks Sister Stepped Copy Share Image
