“I remember arguing that moral greatness had little meaning without action to effect the moral end.” — Geraldine Brooks Character Copy Share Image
If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for… — Geraldine Brooks Aptitude 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
My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal. — Geraldine Brooks 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 Headscarf Copy Share Image
“And he’d grown as a cactus grows, bitter and prickly and tough enough to survive what came his way.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Instead of idleness, vanity, or an intellect formed by the spoon-feeding of others, my girls have acquired energy, industry, and independence. — Geraldine Brooks Energy Copy Share Image
“Life is better than death. I know this. Tequamuck says it is the coward’s talk. I say it is braver, sometimes, to… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“Inside, I gagged. The floor was awash with excrement. Blocked toilet bowls brimmed with sewage. The place looked as if it hadn’t… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“So, you are happy to be a pigeon?” “Maybe so. But at least a pigeon does no harm. The hawk lives at… — Geraldine Brooks Animals Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I borrowed his brightness and used it to see my way, and then gradually, from the habit of looking at the world… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I write while my son is at school. At about 7:45 A.M., I walk him there, with the dogs, then walk them… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“She was quick of mind and swift of tongue, always ready to answer a set down with the kind of witty rebuke… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“You," he continued, grabbing my wrist. "All of you, from the safe world, with your air bags and your tamper-proof packaging and… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
How strange it is, Anna. Yesterday, I have filed in my mind as a good day, notwithstanding it was filled with mortal… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“So, my good father, you go and write the order to burn that book, as your church requires of you. And I… — Geraldine Brooks Books 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 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
“My mother was an excellent woman. Pious, virtuous. Kind. But she was not the intellectual equal of my father. Not by any… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
All the times, all the very many times, I had been forced to thwart and stifle my own nature seemed to gather… — Geraldine Brooks Anger Copy Share Image
What's wrong with leading the way? We've played that role before, after all. We gave the world the secret ballot... that did… — Geraldine Brooks Ballots Copy Share Image
“All the women who actually drove were mature professionals who had international drivers’ licenses they’d acquired overseas. Many” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Mental cruelty, nondisfiguring physical abuse or just plain unhappiness are rarely considered grounds on which a woman can seek divorce.” — Geraldine Brooks Divorce Copy Share Image
“one in five Muslim girls lives today in a community that sanctions some sort of interference with her genitals.” — Geraldine Brooks Genitals Copy Share Image
“You English palisade yourselves up behind 'must nots' and I commence to think it is a barren fortress in which you wall… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“No, no,” he said. “She can’t raise it at all. She may only clap. Women must be very careful of their voices.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
We were too intelligent, too cynical for war. Of course, you don't have to be stupid and primitive to die a stupid,… — Geraldine Brooks Cynical Copy Share Image
“the dangerous female body that somehow, in Muslim society, had been made to carry the heavy burden of male honor.” — Geraldine Brooks Female body 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
I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war. — Geraldine Brooks 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 Copy Share Image
“if her husband and children are suffering from her absence or her preoccupation with politics, then this is not Islam.” It” — Geraldine Brooks Children Copy Share Image
“under the surface there is often ambivalence about women at work that makes their position vulnerable.” — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“She must not speak in a delicate tone. This is from the Koran. Things begun with a few words will continue to… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“As that ripe summer turned to autumn, the sunlight cooled to a slantwise gleam, bronzing the beach grass and setting the beetle-bung… — Geraldine Brooks Autumn 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 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
