And when I'd be reporting in Israel, Palestinians would say, the Jews they're not like us, and the Jews would say the… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“The great thing about being always among people of noble manners was the inevitable elevation of one's own.” — Geraldine Brooks Elevation 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
“Raz was one of those vanguard human beings of indeterminate ethnicity, the magnificent mutts that I hope we are all destined to… — Geraldine Brooks African american 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
The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves… — Geraldine Brooks Betray 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
“I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve,… — Geraldine Brooks Grief 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
“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 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
I'd gotten myself into a kind of journalism that wasn't really compatible with rearing an infant. I'd been a foreign correspondent for… — Geraldine Brooks Amount Copy Share Image
“Are there any two words in all of the English language more closely twinned than courage and cowardice? I do not think… — Geraldine Brooks Bravery Copy Share Image
“He walked through the woods like a young Adam, naming creation.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid… — Geraldine Brooks Brave 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
“I held it out and Caleb took it. This was the first book he had held in his hands. He made me… — Geraldine Brooks Bible Copy Share Image
“She’d been married at twelve, before her menarche, and had been pregnant or lactating ever since.” — Geraldine Brooks Marriage Copy Share Image
So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted… — Geraldine Brooks Adopting Copy Share Image
“under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.” — Geraldine Brooks Women At Work 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 Sunsets 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 Copy Share Image
