Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitjacketed, kept nude, electrocuted, half-frozen, parboiled,…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“I don't know why I wanted a girl,' he says, as if to himself. 'I mean, I wouldn't swap Louis, but when…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporations well; it also soothes the frightened, guilty, indifferent, busy, sadistic,…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“They sit beside each other on one of the sofas, Warwick leaning forward with his elbows on his knees, Joanne resting back…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“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

“One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to library and back again, subsisting on…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entitlement, and relevant…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with…

— 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…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Those who say marriage is no different to cohabitation are perhaps less sensitive to issues of continuity. Legally and socially, marriage provided…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Grey's chalky, flat, impassive face, dead eyes and squeaky monotone are now virtually emblematic of extreme mainstream pornography. For the uninitiated: her…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.”

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“My handsome husband and I didn’t make love for almost six months. I was enraptured, lost to my old life, and, in…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion,…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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

“Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It…

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke