For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal… — Geraldine Brooks Chamber 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
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
“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
“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 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 Older women 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
“one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“adult life is full of hardship, childhood should be free of it.” — Geraldine Brooks Adult life Copy Share Image
“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation. I learned to shape my mouth to the words—sasumuneash for cranberry,… — Geraldine Brooks First time 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
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
“I am not alone in this. I only let him do to me what men have ever done to women: march off… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Women, it says, “manufacture men and play a great role in guiding and educating the [new] generation. The” — Geraldine Brooks 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
“How often it is that an idea that seems bright bossed and gleaming in its clarity when examined in a church, or… — Geraldine Brooks 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
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
“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
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
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks Gals 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
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
“It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn’t nearly as great as I’d assumed.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“I picked up scallop shells in diverse colors and sizes — warm reds and yellows; cool, stippled grays — and reflected on… — Geraldine Brooks Trouble making Copy Share Image
