Antonella Gambotto-Burke Quotes

Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment ...

The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated inse...

Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – ...

For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New...

They sit beside each other on one of the sofas, Warwick leaning forward with his elbows on his knees...

We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can invol...

My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital i...

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

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

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

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

Time is ungovernable, but grief presents us with a choice: what do we do with the savage energies of...

Does any man have the right to dispose of his own life? This is the ultimate question of moral entit...

Sometimes I hear the world discussed as the realm of men. This is not my experience. I have watched ...

Classifying depression as an illness serves the psychiatric community and pharmaceutical corporation...

Secret elisions within families are suddenly revealed by self-execution, and just as quickly sheeted...

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per c...

The light in that room was a glow; I seem to remember the color green, or perhaps flowers. A pale gr...

Corruption,' Jordan Belfort believes, 'is endemic to human being. I mean, even men in monasteries - ...

What's required of me in the field is to feel,' Stirton says with emphasis. 'And trying to take that...

In the absence of any therapy, the mentally ill of the 20th century were chained, shackled, straitja...

I remember everything,' Bette Midler flatly notes. 'But you know how in life, you tend to hold grudg...

To cope, he and his siblings – older and younger sisters, a younger brother - created a game called ...

One of the biggest misconceptions remains that Neil Gaiman spent his youth lurching from bedsit to l...

Stirton's work, he says, is now all about investigation. 'You literally are trying to find out what'...

Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-est...

There is a world of difference between the experienceof 'care' – the wiping of a bottom, the bathing...

The very matrix of our ability to love and bond in later life, maternal sensitivity – or lack thereo...

Throughout history, the most brutal cultures have always been distinguished by maternal-infant separ...

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

It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid o...

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifti...

Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on ...

On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my...