“Only one god. Strange, that you English, who gather about you so many things, are content with one only.” — Geraldine Brooks God Copy Share Image
“It was only then that I realized the distance between uncle and nephew wasn’t nearly as great as I’d assumed.” — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“... So this was how it was to be, now: I would do my best to live in the quick world, but… — Geraldine Brooks Ghosts Copy Share Image
“Women without their own drivers could get around only at the whim of husbands and sons. Some” — Geraldine Brooks Husbands Copy Share Image
“This is Islamic dress—but not to them. According to them, the colors in the embroidery are haram. Where” — Geraldine Brooks Islam Copy Share Image
“women now share the economic burden of their families, very few Egyptian men are prepared to share the housework. To” — Geraldine Brooks Family 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 Copy Share Image
Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Such laws can be even more humiliating for older women. A widowed grandmother, for example, may have to rely on the permission… — Geraldine Brooks Grandmother Copy Share Image
“When I looked at my hands and wrists, marred by the marks of small burns from cook pots and flying embers, every… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort… — Geraldine Brooks Baroque Copy Share Image
'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen.… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“To the gnarled old imam, sending his daughters out of the home—to walk in the streets, even if veiled, to sit among… — Geraldine Brooks Children 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
“My Tom died as babies do, gently and without complaint. Because they have been such a little time with us, they seem… — Geraldine Brooks Kindness 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
Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is today. Out in the city's western reaches, days passed in a… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think probably the scaredest I've ever been was in Somalia. I arrived there when the episode that became known as 'Black… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved… — Geraldine Brooks Fiction 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 Copy Share Image
And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans.… — Geraldine Brooks Balkans Copy Share Image
We are not the only animal that mourns; apes do, and elephants, and dogs. Yet we are the only one that tortures. — Geraldine Brooks Animal 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
“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
She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she… — Geraldine Brooks Butterfly Copy Share Image
“I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve,… — Geraldine Brooks Grief Copy Share Image
“Women of all ages are in-fantilized by the Saudi system. A woman, no matter how old, has to be able to show… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“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
“It was a voice full of light and dark. Light not only as it glimmers, but also as it glares. Dark not… — Geraldine Brooks Dark Copy Share Image
“There's a word a friend of mine coined for that feeble gesture we make as if we're going to hold the door,… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
So, you know, Nathaniel was my first child, born when I was 40, so, uh... And then in due course, he wanted… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The old man was appalled by the prospect of women driving. He clapped a bony hand to his heart and gazed heavenward:… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Rehab had been cursed indeed. There was no way Mohamed could have raised the money to buy his secret stash of gold… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“they knew that what they hoped for from the operation was to safeguard their daughters’ chastity, because upon that chastity depended the… — Geraldine Brooks Parenting Copy Share Image
![“It didn't take me long out there, in the landscapes my father had painted, to realize that as much as I loved my country [Australia], I barely knew it. I'd spent so many years studying the art of our immigrant cultures, and barely any time at all on the one that had been here all along…So I set…” quote by Geraldine Brooks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c2/geraldine-brooks-1324_fiction_it-didn-t-take-me-long-out-there-in-the_2118868.jpg)
