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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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw the printing presses rolling at the Sydney newspaper where my dad worked as a proofreader. – 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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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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If we fear the unknown then surely we fear ourselves. – Bryant H. McGill

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If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? – Stevie Nicks

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I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: Id hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy. – Anne Lamott

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My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. – Evita Peron

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