“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
“Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women’s hands benefits families much more than money flowing… — Geraldine Brooks Children 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
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
“My mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother all told me it was right, that without it a woman wouldn’t be able to… — Geraldine Brooks Parenting Copy Share Image
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks Book 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
“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
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks 18th century Copy Share Image
“We’re seeing a rise in the school dropout rate for girls because their families’ incomes are falling and girls’ schooling is the… — Geraldine Brooks Education Copy Share Image
“As to secrets, Father, I have but one: if the congregation expects a sermon of forty minutes’ length, then give them one… — Geraldine Brooks Parenting Copy Share Image
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his… — Geraldine Brooks Heavens 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 Feminism Copy Share Image
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that… — Geraldine Brooks Ambulance Copy Share Image
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks Certainty Copy Share Image
“Until you opened it, the book was nothing that an untrained eye would look twice at.” — Geraldine Brooks Bibliophilia Copy Share Image
“From there, the future is a place that looks darker every day.” — Geraldine Brooks Darker Copy Share Image
To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. — Geraldine Brooks Attitude Copy Share Image
“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.” — Geraldine Brooks Drowning Copy Share Image
“man will silence the voice of his conscience when it suits him to commit sin. But” — Geraldine Brooks Conscience Copy Share Image
“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks Caverns Copy Share Image
“To take a people who were traveling apace the broadway to hell, and to be able to turn them, and set their… — Geraldine Brooks Hell Copy Share Image
“Women, on the other hand, were easy targets. Any time things started to go wrong in the Middle East, women suffered for… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“They were all men, all middle-aged, all of a type: intelligent and elitist, yet deferential to the point of groveling before the… — Geraldine Brooks Elitist Copy Share Image
“Janis Karpinski and a few of the instructors fasted all day along with their troops. “I wanted to show solidarity with them,… — Geraldine Brooks Fasted Copy Share Image
