Antonella Gambotto-Burke Quotes

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

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#2. Language shapes consciousness and from consciousness, our world is shaped.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#3. 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 any interest to me.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#5. Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father. I wanted his freedom and his focus. To him, a family was an aquarium: controlled, contained. To the women I knew, a family was everything.

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#6. Maternal/child attachment is mostly eroded in increments. The separation begins in hospitals, where mothers are not only made to feel inferior to medical professionals in relation
to their infants, but regularly separated from their infants.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#7. The way Grey speaks, one would think she had been garlanded in rubies and peonies rather than the semen of men who address her with a contempt that borders on revulsion.

Antonella Gambotto-Burke