--- title: "10 Kind Quotes By Gillian Flynn" description: "10 Kind quotes by Gillian Flynn. Plus more from Gillian Flynn and more Kind sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7a/gillian-flynn-316_kind_women-shouldn-t-be-expected-to-only-play_2001977.jpg" --- > [Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/women-shouldn-t-be-expected-to-only-play-nurturing-kind-caretakers/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7a/gillian-flynn-316_kind_women-shouldn-t-be-expected-to-only-play_2001977.jpg) > [Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. (But who also kind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/give-me-a-man-with-a-little-fight-in-him-a-man-who-calls-me-on-my/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/961/gillian-flynn-316_bullshit_give-me-a-man-with-a-little-fight-in-him_702150.jpg) > [Books and movies are kind of my two great loves. I don't have too many other actual hobbies. That's pretty much it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/books-and-movies-are-kind-of-my-two-great-loves-i-don-t-have-too-many/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dee/gillian-flynn-316_books_books-and-movies-are-kind-of-my-two-grea_2066656.jpg) > [I was a quirky kid. I think that's the kind way of putting it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-was-a-quirky-kid-i-think-that-s-the-kind-way-of-putting-it/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2e9/gillian-flynn-316_childhood_i-was-a-quirky-kid-i-think-that-s-the-ki_2761731.jpg) > [I've always had a fondness for the Gothic. That's what kind of stories attract me: Why do people do bad things?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-ve-always-had-a-fondness-for-the-gothic-that-s-what-kind-of-stories/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e2a/gillian-flynn-316_always_i-ve-always-had-a-fondness-for-the-gothi_2247642.jpg) > [A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/a-town-so-suffocating-and-small-you-tripped-over-people-you-hated/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ec/gillian-flynn-316_every-day_a-town-so-suffocating-and-small-you-trip_88756.jpg) > [I think mystery writers and thriller writers - whatever genre you want to call it - are taking on some of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-think-mystery-writers-and-thriller-writers-whatever-genre-you-want/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/718/gillian-flynn-316_compelling_i-think-mystery-writers-and-thriller-wri_2785427.jpg) > [“My dad had limitations. That's what my good-hearted mom always told us. He had limitations, but he meant no harm. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/my-dad-had-limitations-that-s-what-my-good-hearted-mom-always-told-us/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f6a/gillian-flynn-316_abuse_my-dad-had-limitations-that-s-what-my-go_2206126.jpg) > [I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-have-four-or-five-ideas-that-just-keep-floating-around-and-i-want/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/86f/gillian-flynn-316_beautiful_i-have-four-or-five-ideas-that-just-keep_2987930.jpg) > [I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-grew-up-in-the-80s-where-there-s-a-lot-of-these-kind-of-post/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/070/gillian-flynn-316_80s_i-grew-up-in-the-80s-where-there-s-a-lot_1323302.jpg) ## Other authors on Kind ## More by Gillian Flynn > [“Our kind of love can go into remission, but it's always waiting to return. Like the world sweetest cancer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/our-kind-of-love-can-go-into-remission-but-it-s-always-waiting-to/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/the-midwest-is-great-because-it-hasn-t-been-entirely-claimed-there-s/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“Sometimes it is all too loud.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/sometimes-it-is-all-too-loud/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/my-thank-yous-always-come-out-rather-labored-i-often-don-t-give-them/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/there-s-something-disturbing-about-recalling-a-warm-memory-and/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“My life has begun to feel like an epilogue.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/my-life-has-begun-to-feel-like-an-epilogue/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“The Victorians, especially southern Victorians, needed a lot of room to stray away from each other, to duck tuberculosis and flu, to avoid rapacious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/the-victorians-especially-southern-victorians-needed-a-lot-of-room-to/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“You think: Oh, here is the rest of my life. It’s finally arrived.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/you-think-oh-here-is-the-rest-of-my-life-it-s-finally-arrived/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/what-a-generous-thing-that-is-i-realize-for-a-husband-to-try-to-make/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [I am a great believer in jobs for teens. They teach important life lessons, build character, and inflict just the right amount of humiliation…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/i-am-a-great-believer-in-jobs-for-teens-they-teach-important-life/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“you'd literally lie, cheat, and steal -hell, kill- to convince people you are a good guy”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/you-d-literally-lie-cheat-and-steal-hell-kill-to-convince-people-you/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/my-imagination-is-more-tweaked-by-imagining-the-lives-of-the-people/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/given-my-druthers-now-i-d-prefer-a-snapshot-of-warren-harding-s-wife/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/a-town-so-suffocating-and-small-you-tripped-over-people-you-hated/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) > [“For a long time Cool Girl offended me. I used to see men - friends, coworkers, strangers - giddy over these awful pretender women,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/for-a-long-time-cool-girl-offended-me-i-used-to-see-men-friends/) [Gillian Flynn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gillian-flynn/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/kind/gillian-flynn/#itemlist", "name": "10 Kind Quotes By Gillian Flynn", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Gillian Flynn" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gillian-flynn/women-shouldn-t-be-expected-to-only-play-nurturing-kind-caretakers/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7a/gillian-flynn-316_kind_women-shouldn-t-be-expected-to-only-play_2001977.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7a/gillian-flynn-316_kind_women-shouldn-t-be-expected-to-only-play_2001977.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e7a/gillian-flynn-316_kind_women-shouldn-t-be-expected-to-only-play_2001977.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.” — Gillian Flynn", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Give me a man with a little fight in him, a man who calls me on my bullshit. 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