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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone alone in patches alone in groups alone in races even alone in genders.
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.
Quotes By Geraldine Brooks
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You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental...
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The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual...
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There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit...
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are...
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My mother's family were full-on Irish Catholics - faith in an elaborate old...
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I knew I was going to be a journalist when I was eight years old and I saw...
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Both my mum and dad were great readers and we would go every Saturday...
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Sep-11 2001 revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through...
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There are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the...
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Sydney in the 1960s wasn't the exuberant multicultural metropolis it is...
Quotes About Fear
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There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where...
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You don't have to do everything by the time you're 30. Or 40. All you need is...
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I think interviews can be fine. It's just there's this terrible fear of...
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Don't fear anything for your letters they are burnt one by one and I hope...
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I think however that so long as our present economic and national systems...
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Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home or we...
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I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women....
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What I think we fear is rapid pronounced and uncontrollable changes to...
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Maybe I fear things going wrong so much that I pre-empt them by not getting...
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When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did you fear that you'll...