Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Consciousness Copy Share Image
“The artist, in making victims of his muses, remasters himself as a hero, saving them from their otherwise inconsequential lives.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Abuse Copy Share Image
“In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.” — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Anxiety 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 Career development Copy Share Image
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 Anorexia Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The way Grey speaks, one would think she had been garlanded in rubies and peonies rather than the semen of men who… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Contempt Copy Share Image
Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Culture Copy Share Image
It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Children Copy Share Image
“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ –… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Attachment Copy Share Image
“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… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Audience Copy Share Image
The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“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 Fatherhood Copy Share Image
“I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudges? Well, I don’t do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Adulthood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Abuse Copy Share Image
“To cope, he and his siblings – older and younger sisters, a younger brother - created a game called Henry Kissinger. Palahniuk… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Abuse Copy Share Image
“On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Earthquake Copy Share Image
“Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Abused children Copy Share Image
“Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand), the first single from Eat Me, Drink Me, features a video filmed by Titanic… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Break your heart Copy Share Image
“Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of bereavement? What do… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Bereavement Copy Share Image
“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 Media Copy Share Image
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - where enticement is hard to come… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Avarice Copy Share Image
“The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale green sheet… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Asphyxiation Copy Share Image
“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 Abuse Copy Share Image
What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions,… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Children Copy Share Image
“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 Grey Copy Share Image
“Stirton's work, he says, is now all about investigation. 'You literally are trying to find out what's happening and, finally, manoeuvre yourself… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Anxiety-disorders Copy Share Image
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Addiction 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… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Attachment Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It started off very underprivileged, but got more affluent.' Amis suddenly smiles to himself, remembering a moment with his father. 'I remember… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Copy Share Image
“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 Cohabitation 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
“He never addressed it as infidelity. To Jordan Belfort and his men, sex with a Blue Chip was a reflex of sorts… — Antonella Gambotto-Burke Banking Copy Share Image
“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 Fatherhood Copy Share Image
“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 David-hume Copy Share Image
“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 Baked beans Copy Share Image
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 Experiments Copy Share Image
