Despair is a cavern beneath our feet and we teeter on its very brink. — Geraldine Brooks Caverns Copy Share Image
“Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid, primitive death.” — Geraldine Brooks Death 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
“In either culture, women somehow managed to get the wrong end of the stick. Women bear the brunt of fending off social… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
The dirty little secret of foreign correspondents is that 90 per cent of it is showing up. If you can find a… — Geraldine Brooks Cause Copy Share Image
“Australians say 'pissed off.' Pissed means drunk. Piss is alcohol. To take the piss--that means to send someone up, make fun of… — Geraldine Brooks Pissed Copy Share Image
Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are… — Geraldine Brooks Best Copy Share Image
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
“asked how, if he never had spoken before to women outside his family, he was able to serve as spiritual counselor to… — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
And one of the things that I learned was you can't generalise at all about a woman in a veil. You can't… — Geraldine Brooks Babe Copy Share Image
“Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem… — Geraldine Brooks Harvard Copy Share Image
If somebody from the past doesn't rise up from the grave and start talking to me, I haven't got a book. I… — Geraldine Brooks Act Copy Share Image
“But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see… — Geraldine Brooks Art Copy Share Image
“Christian worship of Jesus is an idolatry much worse than the Israelites’ worship of the golden calf, for the Christians err in… — Geraldine Brooks Christian worship Copy Share Image
“It is natural to want to forget, Anna, when everyday is a brimful of sadness. But those souls also forgot those that… — Geraldine Brooks Anna Copy Share Image
“I reached for her, pushing back the fall of hair-it was heavy and thick and smooth to the touch-and tilted her chin… — Geraldine Brooks Desire Copy Share Image
“girls were subjected to both clito-ridectomy—the excision of the clitoris—and infibulation—the cutting away of the labia and the sealing of the wound… — Geraldine Brooks Scar tissue Copy Share Image
“I have now traveled so far south that I find myself come to a place where our common expression “white as snow”… — Geraldine Brooks Nature Copy Share Image
“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.” — Geraldine Brooks Library Copy Share Image
“I felt the reckless abandon of one who knows she stands already among the damned. "Why not, then, another sin?” — Geraldine Brooks Abandon Copy Share Image
“Mullahs have been making an issue of field hockey lately, because you have to run and bend. And” — Geraldine Brooks Field hockey Copy Share Image
“In Muslim societies men’s bodies just weren’t seen as posing the same kind of threat to social stability as women’s. Getting” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.” — Geraldine Brooks Description Copy Share Image
“All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers’ licenses they’d acquired overseas. Many” — Geraldine Brooks Drove Copy Share Image
“I was like one who forgets all day to eat until the scent from some other's roasting pan reminds her she's ravenous.” — Geraldine Brooks Ravenous Copy Share Image
“I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.” — Geraldine Brooks Hate Copy Share Image
I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully… — Geraldine Brooks Clear Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
“When she had discovered that I hungered to learn, she commenced to shovel knowledge my way as vigorously as she spaded the… — Geraldine Brooks Gardening Copy Share Image
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go.… — Geraldine Brooks Fiction Copy Share Image
I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite… — Geraldine Brooks Books Copy Share Image
I had this story that had been banging around in my head and I thought, 'I'll just see if there's anything there.'… — Geraldine Brooks Anything Copy Share Image
“The snow light flared on brightness. Blue: intense as a midsummer sky, obtained from grinding precious lapis lazuli carried by camel caravan… — Geraldine Brooks Snow Copy Share Image
“Often the women are burned, so that the death can be passed off as an accident. The killer usually becomes a local… — Geraldine Brooks Death Copy Share Image
The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you… — Geraldine Brooks Comedy Copy Share Image
“The practice of mutilating women’s genitals in Eritrea predated the arrival of both religions, and for hundreds of years neither faith had… — Geraldine Brooks Religion Copy Share Image
I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling… — Geraldine Brooks Dad Copy Share Image
