Quote by 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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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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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

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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

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Fear clogs faith liberates. – Elbert Hubbard

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To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. – Thomas Aquinas

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Everything I am I owe to my faith and secondly to parents who were old school. – J. C. Watts

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The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India… has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith. – Ignatius Loyola

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The old welfare system was hurting people by discouraging work and marriage. Welfare reform, and now this legislation, will build on the understanding that work and strong families are the foundation upon which we build our future. – Jim Talent

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