“trouble is, these people don’t understand their own culture,” said” — Geraldine Brooks Culture Copy Share Image
“She was loved by a man as a woman is meant to be loved.” — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“Time turned into a rope that unraveled as a languid spiral.” — Geraldine Brooks Drugs Copy Share Image
Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. — Geraldine Brooks Certainty Copy Share Image
“They threw rotten fruit at me and told me next time it would be acid.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“He saw his daughter as a kind-hearted, dutiful, but vaguely pitiable soul. David, like many people, had made the mistake of confusing… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“Josip had only an instant to exchange a glance with Serif. He made it the most eloquent glance of his life.” — Geraldine Brooks Life Copy Share Image
“A scandal had traditionally been an easy way to dispose of an inconvenient woman.” — Geraldine Brooks Easy way 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 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 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
“Wealthy women who wanted to keep fit maintained well-equipped gyms in their homes and hired personal trainers. The rest led completely sedentary… — Geraldine Brooks Gym 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
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
“In both cases, women are expected to sacrifice their comfort and freedom to service the requirements of male sexuality: either to repress… — Geraldine Brooks Freedom 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
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
“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
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 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 Extremists Copy Share Image
Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of getting food… — Geraldine Brooks 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
Yes, it seems we've got this mutant gene in our human personality that makes us susceptible to this same kind of mistake… — Geraldine Brooks Beautiful 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
“I wonder where he lies. Wedged under a rock, with a thousand small mouths already sucking on his spongy flesh. Or floating… — Geraldine Brooks War 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 Copy Share Image
“These memories of happiness are fleeting things, reflections in a stream, glimpsed all broken for a second and then swept away in… — Geraldine Brooks Grief Copy Share Image
“The lieutenant colonel wondered if the high scores reflected a defect in the newly built shooting range at the women’s academy. To… — Geraldine Brooks Shooting range Copy Share Image
Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can. — Geraldine Brooks Alive 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
“In most Muslim countries women are the custodians of their male relatives’ honor. If” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“But some things on earth were possible, and some were not, and Ruti knew the difference.” — Geraldine Brooks Nature Copy Share Image
“I’ve watched them. Watched them walking with this stupid smile on their faces into the biggest risk you can take in this… — Geraldine Brooks Life Copy Share Image
If there is one class of person I have never quite trusted, it is a man who knows no doubt. — Geraldine Brooks Class 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
