Gillian Flynn : (4) " My first job had me miscast as a bubbly shopgirl; I was pathologically shy and, thus, tended to replace human speech with excessive head gestures. It was like being waited on by Harpo Marx. " - Gillian Flynn " In marriage, it’s best to keep perspective. Get out of your head and get some perspective. " - Gillian Flynn " 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 novel. It’s just a book. " - Gillian Flynn " I think it’s a very female trait to want to please men and to want to be considered the Cool Girl. And if you take that to the farthest reach, where you’re actually selling yourself out and degrading yourself by doing things you don’t actually want to do, only in order for this man to think that you do, that’s a very perverse thing. " - Gillian Flynn