“My mother, my grandmother and my great-grandmother all told me it was right, that without it a woman wouldn’t be able to… — Geraldine Brooks Parenting Copy Share Image
If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go… — Geraldine Brooks Actresses Copy Share Image
I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant… — Geraldine Brooks Ambition Copy Share Image
Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and… — Geraldine Brooks Amnesty Copy Share Image
Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and… — Geraldine Brooks Book Copy Share Image
“I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I'm a praying atheist. When I hear an ambulance siren, I ask for a blessing for those people in trouble, knowing that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“West Bank women’s groups argued that the time wasn’t right, that the struggle for independence from Israeli rule had to come before… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“As to secrets, Father, I have but one: if the congregation expects a sermon of forty minutes’ length, then give them one… — Geraldine Brooks Parenting Copy Share Image
“We’re seeing a rise in the school dropout rate for girls because their families’ incomes are falling and girls’ schooling is the… — Geraldine Brooks Education Copy Share Image
“No wonder simple men have always had their gods dwell in the high places. For as soon as a man lets his… — Geraldine Brooks Heavens Copy Share Image
“How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace… — Geraldine Brooks Remembering Copy Share Image
I do believe that our modern English usage has become way too clipped and austere. I have been reading excerpts from the… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The Bedouin was troubled by a familiar bundle of Middle Eastern bogeys: America in general and the CIA in particular; Jews, or… — Geraldine Brooks Bedouin Copy Share Image
“If Islamic countries can’t come up with their own principles for women’s competition,” she said in one widely reported speech, “then the… — Geraldine Brooks Iran Copy Share Image
“the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against “honor” killings but also against forced marriages and… — Geraldine Brooks Feminism Copy Share Image
“It has to do with an intuition about the past. By linking research and imagination, sometimes I can think myself into the… — Geraldine Brooks Book 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
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost… — Geraldine Brooks 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
One thing I believe completely is that the human heart remains the human heart, no matter how our material circumstances change as… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“The word for mother, umm, is the root of the words for “source, nation, mercy, first principle, rich harvest; stupid, illiterate, parasite,… — Geraldine Brooks Compassion Copy Share Image
For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal… — Geraldine Brooks Cancer Copy Share Image
I was a pretty delicate kid. Anything that was going around I'd get it and I'd generally get it much worse than… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“He did not turn. Embracing his sister, he stepped off the bank, onto the ice. He walked out into the centre, where… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“Save the Children, an organization whose research has proved repeatedly that money in women’s hands benefits families much more than money flowing… — Geraldine Brooks Children 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 Copy Share Image
I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much less… — Geraldine Brooks Cross Copy Share Image
“At fifteen, I have taken up the burdens of a woman, and have come to feel I am one. Furthermore, I am… — Geraldine Brooks 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
“fundamentalists asked that a male answer questions directed to her, on the grounds that a woman’s voice is too alluring to be… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I loved being away from school. I didn't really fancy school that much when I was little; it wasn't until I was… — 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 Freedom Copy Share Image
I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age,… — Geraldine Brooks Adolescence Copy Share Image
September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent… — Geraldine Brooks Courage Copy Share Image
“It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
“We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the… — Geraldine Brooks Future Copy Share Image
“At sunset, if I am near the water - and it is hard to be very far from it here -I pause… — Geraldine Brooks Sunset Copy Share Image
“The laws of the Islamic state would be derived first from the Koran. But since only about six hundred of its six… — Geraldine Brooks Family Copy Share Image
“I recognized the tokens of the time, because I had lived through just such another uneasy season, when every day was tainted… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
