All Antonella Gambotto-Burke Quotes
- 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 is… Anti
- We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-old is the incarnation of our union;… Affected
- 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… Abusive
- This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is, in essence,… Addiction
- It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, gentleness and the… All
- Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, volubility, warmth – are seen as impediments to a… Culture
- Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched men fall to the ground like… Anachronistic
- My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen… Dazzled
- Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped. Consciousness
- 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 internalized… Absent
- Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds of needs… All
- What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that feeling and put it in a… Circumstances
- For years, I had used these fractured men to justify my cynicism and workaholism, and the grief, insomnia and casual anorexia were no longer of… Anorexia
- What does a woman feel when she is hit? My mother slapped me when I was a child - on two occasions, to the point… Child
- For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves included. I worked mornings and afternoons, resuming work… Afternoon
- Other than his ex-wife and despite appearances with a series of cultivated blondes, Edward de Bono has never publicly aligned himself with a woman. 'I’m… Aligned