Quotessence
Home / Authors / Antonella Gambotto-Burke
Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Antonella Gambotto-Burke Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

AllFeminismPornographyBirthSuicideFemininityDrugsInfancyMotherhoodPatriarchyAttachmentLoveSexFeelsFeminineObstetricsPornWomenAddictionBabiesDepression

Famous Antonella Gambotto-Burke Quotes

“Privileged women continue the tradition of compensating for their authority to men through affectations of disablement – from dieting and other disorders to substance abuse, institutionalised detachment from their children, and so on.”

WomenFeminismAuthorityPrivilegeAttachmentPatriarchyDetachmentElitePatriarchalStatus Anxiety
Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
Create image

“These associations, between childbirth and feminine effacement, and between feminine silencing and violence, would, for the first time, become imprinted on the subconscious in relation to birth, creating, in place of passionate and proud attachment, a terror-based antipathy between mother and child, and between the feminine and its biology.”

LoveBirthLabourAttachmentFemininityInfantFeminine BiologyMaternal Infant
Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
Create image

“As Baba Ram Dass (his ‘spiritual name’), Richard Alpert explained human attachment as a ‘clue that there’s work to be done’ – meaning that territoriality was remastered by him as dysfunctional and primitive, and as requiring the curative attentions of a guru, ordinarily an older man.”

WisdomEnlightenmentAttachmentDetachmentTimothy LearyRam DassRichard Alpert
Book:Apple: Sex, Drugs, Motherhood and the Recovery of the Feminine
Create image