"Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's……" — Antonella Gambotto-Burke
"Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself."
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16 Quotes by Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men…
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My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was…
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Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.
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The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis…
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Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area…
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When someone comes up to me and says, 'Mary, you helped save my marriage', or, 'Mary, you helped me get…
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The more love I craved, the more distant and abusive he grew. The role I longed to play was never…
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A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency,…
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As a result of the feminist revolution, feminine becomes an abusive epithet.
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Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic.
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There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.
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