Geraldine Brooks (writer) Quote

I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.

Boyer Lectures 2011 (ed. HarperCollins Australia, 2011) - ISBN: 9780730497660