“To take a people who were traveling apace the broadway to hell, and to be able to turn them, and set their… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“man will silence the voice of his conscience when it suits him to commit sin. But” — Geraldine Brooks Ethics Copy Share Image
“Widespread mutilation seems to have originated in Stone Age central Africa and traveled north, down the Nile, into ancient Egypt. It wasn’t… — Geraldine Brooks Ancient egypt Copy Share Image
“In fact, the majlis was an intensely feudal scene, with respectful subjects waiting humbly for a few seconds’ opportunity to whisper in… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“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
God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce… — Geraldine Brooks Babe 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
“I had to remind myself that Islam had once swept north as far as the gates of Vienna; that when the haggadah… — Geraldine Brooks Christianity Copy Share Image
But that Franklin trip changed me profoundly. As I believe wilderness experience changes everyone. Because it puts us in our place. The… — Geraldine Brooks Believe Copy Share Image
“month—the money gives the women at least a small degree of discretion in spending and the prestige that comes from contributing to… — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.” — Geraldine Brooks Library 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 Guts 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
“Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Why would I marry? I'm not made to be any man's chattel. I have my work, which I love. I have my… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks Certainty 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
“One program that deplored the high incidence of wife beating drew hundreds of letters from angry men, who insisted that beating their… — Geraldine Brooks Marriage 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
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
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
“Janis Karpinski and a few of the instructors fasted all day along with their troops. “I wanted to show solidarity with them,… — Geraldine Brooks 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
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
