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Antonella Gambotto-Burke

"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 locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent."

Source : Antonella Gambotto-Burke (2013). “The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide”, p.9, Antonella Gambotto-Burke

Antonella Gambotto-Burke

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“I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.”
“Thus it seemed to Haeckel that such simple life could easily be produced from inanimate material.”
“Rock â€™n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids â€“ they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.”
“Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!”
“Under crowded conditions the friendly social interactions between members of a group become reduced, and the destructive and aggressive patterns show a marked rise in frequency and intensity.”

Source : desmond morris (1967). “tha naked ape”
“Nature never gives to a living thing capacities not particularly meant for its benefit and use. If Nature gives to us capacities to believe that we have a Creator whom we never saw, of whom we have no direct proof, who is kind and good and tender beyond all that we know of kindness and goodness and tenderness on earth, it is because the endowment of capacities to conceive a Being must be for our benefit and use; it would not be for our benefit and use if it were a lie.”
“Animal personalities have always intrigued me, the desire to find out more about them made a reader out of me.”
“Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.”

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