Quotes by Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

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My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was beca — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid of mystery, emotion, — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orie — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
Repudiating the vulnerability I felt had wrecked the lives of women around me, I modelled myself on my controlled father — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me to open them, and th — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am. — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
For years, I worked seven-day weeks, through birthdays and most public holidays, Christmases and New Year’s Eves include — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is real — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
This human need for mysticism – surrender to an unknown truth, union – stands at the helm of all romantic feeling. It is — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
Our culture is now one of masculine triumphalism, in which transhistorically feminine expressions – empathy, sweetness, — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
On first hearing that little voice – as fine and friable, I felt, as cotton thread, the impact on my soul was that of th — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
Delirious as it can be, sex is only one kind of intimacy, and yet has become the cultural catchment area for all kinds o — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
We watched each other evolve into parents, with all the fear, rage and confusion evolution can involve. Our eight-year-o — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love
My handsome husband and I didn’t make love for almost six months. I was enraptured, lost to my old life, and, in this ob — Antonella Gambotto-Burke, Mama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love