Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ – meaning that… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“I’m not really interested in the audience’s enjoyment,' Cave mumbles once he has changed into clean pants. 'It doesn’t bother me one way or… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted with excuses, blame, and counter-blame. But sense is made of… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“Stirton's work, he says, is now all about investigation. 'You literally are trying to find out what's happening and, finally, manoeuvre yourself to the… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“Grey's thing has always been transgression – conscious, and without the interference of shame. In a world of people uncertain about the acceptability of… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
Suicide rates have not slumped under the onslaught of antidepressants, mood-stabilizers, anxiolytic and anti-psychotic drugs; the jump in suicide rates suggests that the opposite… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic director James… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do we do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share
