Gillian Flynn
✓ Source-basedfallingAmerican author and critic
Gillian Schieber Flynn is an American author, screenwriter, and producer, best known for her thriller and mystery novels Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012). Her works have been published in 40 languages, and by 2016, Gone Girl had sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
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I wanted to make it clear that the show’s about a matriarchy. I wanted it to be clear that power can be ugly, and a matriarchy is just as ugly as a patriarchy.
On how the matriarchy is portrayed in Sharp Objects in “Gillian Flynn Isn’t Going to Write the Kind of Women You Want” in Vanity Fair (2018
I think there’s a deep societal fear of female rage, partly because it hasn’t been experienced a lot.
On how she perceives female rage in “Gillian Flynn Isn’t Going to Write the Kind of Women You Want” in Vanity Fair (2018 Jun 28)
It’s incredibly misogynist to tell me I can only write a certain type of woman. Because that’s saying women must be a certain type of person.
On her novels being called misogynistic in “Gillian Flynn Isn’t Going to Write the Kind of Women You Want” in Vanity Fair (2018 Jun 28)
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