Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Even good characters have their dark sides, and I think it is important that women aren't seen as innately good. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“I was never really on my side in any argument. I liked the Old Testament spitefulness of the phrase got what she… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think that women really entwine with the people that they become close to in a way that men don't - and… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay -… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I like the idea that people who see 'Gone Girl' are possibly going to come out with incredibly different reactions to it… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I think women are very ambidextrous. We don't think twice about reading a book or a movie starring guys. But for guys,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
The midwest is great because it hasn't been entirely claimed. There's more room to write about it; it's harder to write about New York,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“My thank-yous always come out rather labored. I often don't give them at all. People do what they're supposed to do and then wait… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy” — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“Given my druthers now, I’d prefer a snapshot of Warren Harding’s wife, “the Duchess,” who recorded the smallest offenses in a little red notebook… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful pretender women,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share
