Quote by Geraldine Brooks
The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer

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

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You cant write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. Im very interested in what religion does to us – its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. – Geraldine Brooks

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My mothers 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 womens rights and social justice issues when I was just 13 years old. – Geraldine Brooks

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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us. – Geraldine Brooks

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I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. – Dean Inge

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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying. – Polly Toynbee

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It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction. – John Boyd Orr

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People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way thats not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that weve not engaged in. – Eric Holder

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