“Politics needs a certain mental ability,” explained Ahmad Saati, the university’s spokesman. “Very few women have this kind of mind.” I” — 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 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 Copy Share Image
“They argued that women of the prophet’s era had ridden camels, the main mode of transportation of their day. The” — Geraldine Brooks Camels Copy Share Image
They say the Lord's Day is a day of rest, but those who preach this generally are not women. — Geraldine Brooks Day of rest Copy Share Image
“This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“We have to fight now to make them understand that everyone has the right to live freely. It’s another war, I think.” — Geraldine Brooks Fight 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
The structure of 'March' was laid down for me before the first line was written, because my character has to exist within… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Many men believe in the saying that educating women is like allowing the nose of the camel into the tent: eventually the… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism 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 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 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 Copy Share Image
I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare,… — Geraldine Brooks 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 Copy Share Image
“It’s so easy for people like me”—a diplomat’s son raised abroad and educated in America—“to be totally off base about this country… — Geraldine Brooks Patriotism 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
“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
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
“In any case, the manifesto states that a Jew is without honour from the day of his birth. That he cannot differentiate… — Geraldine Brooks Israel Copy Share Image
“It did not even occur to David to consult Ruti herself about this, or any other matter. Had he done so, he… — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“And now, a year has passed since I undertook to go to war, and I wake every day, sweating, in the solitude… — Geraldine Brooks Certainty Copy Share Image
“Until Islam’s articulate spokeswomen such as Rana Kabbani target their misguided coreligionists with the fervor they expend on outside critics, the grave… — Geraldine Brooks Failure Copy Share Image
“Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of… — Geraldine Brooks Women Copy Share Image
“With this assertion, many mainstream Muslims wash their hands of the twin brutalities that shape the lives of perhaps a quarter of… — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
Jewish prayers are mostly about daily things - the sliver of a new moon, dew on the grass, the bread and the… — Geraldine Brooks Bread 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
“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
“If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.” — Geraldine Brooks 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
“It is a great thing to be young and to live without pain. And yet it is a blessing few of us… — Geraldine Brooks Blessing 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
“Now, of all times in my life, did I wish Caleb truly was my brother, rather than that selfish, imperious, weak-willed soul… — Geraldine Brooks Brother Copy Share Image
“You can ask for things, but you can’t just reach out and take things as if it’s your right.” A” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Even the ordinary business of cleaning house seemed somehow to have become sacramental.” — Geraldine Brooks Business Copy Share Image
“It is this notion of women’s barely controllable lust that often lies behind justifications for clito-ridectomy, seclusion and veiling.” — Geraldine Brooks Lust Copy Share Image
And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share. — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport… — Geraldine Brooks Country 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
