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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old fashioned, highly conservative and madly baroque style. I sort of fell out of the tribe over women's rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Baroque Catholics Conservative Elaborate Faith Family Fell Full-On Highly Irish Issues Just Justice Madly Mother Old Out Over Rights Social Social Justice Sort Style Tribe Were Women Years

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I'm very, very leery of nonfiction books where they change timeframes and use - what do they call those things? - composite characters. I don't think that's right.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Books Call Change Characters Nonfiction Right Things Think Those Use Very Where

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The Sarajevans have a very particular world view - a mordant wit coupled with this unbearable sadness and... truckloads of guts, you know.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Coupled Guts Know Particular Sadness Unbearable Very View Wit World World View You

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Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how people act in a time of catastrophe. Do they go to their best self or their worst self?

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: About Act Basically Best Catastrophe Certainly Coincidence Experiences Go How Journalist Mining Novels People Self Still Think Three Time Worst I Think

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If you look at an illuminated manuscript, even today, it just blows your mind. For them, without all the clutter and inputs that we have, it must have been even more extraordinary.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Been Blows Clutter Even Extraordinary Input Just Look Manuscript Mind More Must Them Today Without You Your

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The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Almost Big Black Call Cancer Coming Corridor Could Day Down Fear Had Hospital Husband Like Looking Me Phone See Shadow Toward Walked

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I had been afraid of breast cancer, as I suspect most women are, from the time I hit adolescence. At that age, when our emerging sexuality is our central preoccupation, the idea of disfigurement of a breast is particularly horrifying.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Adolescence Afraid Age Been Breast Cancer Cancer Central Emerging Had Hit Horrifying Idea Most Our Particularly Preoccupation Sexuality Suspect Time Women Women Are

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If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Actress Ali Big Cancer Character Down Female Give Go Great Her Love Many Meryl Meryl Streep Off Seen Susan Thompson

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For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Chamber Chemotherapy Conceive Four Got Horrors Know Longer Me Months Most Nor Often Ordeal Patients People Periodic Some Some People Suite Visits Yes

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'You've got mail!' exclaims the cheery automaton at America Online. The flag on the mailbox icon waves invitingly on my computer screen. For a second, I'm 10 years old again, waiting for the postman's whistle to slice the stillness of an Australian afternoon.

~Geraldine Brooks

Topics: Afternoon Again America Australian Computer Flag Got Icon Mail Old Online Postman Screen Second Slice Stillness Waiting Waves Whistle Years You

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Biography

Nationality: Australian

Type: Journalist

Born: September 14th, 1955

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