Best quotes by Gillian Flynn on Women

Checkout quotes by Gillian Flynn on Women

  • Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women.
    - Gillian Flynn
  • I've wondered if 'Harry Potter' would have been as big if it was 'Harriet Potter.' Now that I've written a screenplay - and raising a son in particular - I'm looking at story content and realizing how limited women are onscreen.
    - Gillian Flynn
  • I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!'
    - Gillian Flynn
  • There's nothing that can drive me from zero to crazy faster than a man who comes up to me and says, 'You know, I don't normally read books by women, but I really liked 'Gone Girl.''
    - Gillian Flynn
  • Women are just as violently minded as men are, but with men, it's taken for granted.
    - Gillian Flynn
  • Women shouldn't be expected to only play nurturing, kind caretakers.
    - Gillian Flynn
  • That's always been part of my goal - to show the dark side of women. Men write about bad men all the time, and they're called antiheroes.
    - Gillian Flynn
  • A theme that has always interested me is how women express anger, how women express violence. That is very much part of who women are, and it's so unaddressed. A vast amount of literature deals with cycles of violence about men, antiheroes. Women lack that vocabulary.
    - Gillian Flynn