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Gillian Flynn

  • Алиса Нисенбоймhas quotedlast year
    And if all of us are play-acting, there can be no such thing as a soul mate, because we don’t have genuine souls.
  • Алиса Нисенбоймhas quotedlast year
    It had gotten to the point where it seemed like nothing matters, because I’m not a real person and neither is anyone else.
  • Алиса Нисенбоймhas quotedlast year
    You are not dating a woman, you are dating a woman who has watched too many movies written by socially awkward men who’d like to believe that this kind of woman exists and might kiss them
  • Алиса Нисенбоймhas quotedlast year
    And the Cool Girls are even more pathetic: They’re not even pretending to be the woman they want to be, they’re pretending to be the woman a man wants them to be.
  • Алиса Нисенбоймhas quotedlast year
    I waited patiently – years – for the pendulum to swing the other way, for men to start reading Jane Austen, learn how to knit, pretend to love cosmos, organize scrapbook parties, and make out with each other while we leer. And then we’d say, Yeah, he’s a Cool Guy.
  • Алиса Нисенбоймhas quotedlast year
    was a rather nasty cocktail of both those traits, but at the fertility center, I dutifully entered the strange small room dedicated to self-abuse: a place where hundreds of men had entered for no other purpose than to crank the shank, clean the rifle, jerk the gherkin, make the bald man cry, pound the flounder, sail the mayonnaise seas, wiggle the walrus, whitewash with Tom and Huck.

    (I sometimes use humor as self-defense.)
  • Алиса Нисенбоймhas quotedlast year
    One should never marry a man who doesn’t own a decent set of scissors. That would be my advice. It leads to bad things.
  • Valeria Valdezhas quoted2 years ago
    There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
  • Carolinahas quoted2 years ago
    There’s something disturbing about recalling a warm memory and feeling utterly cold.
  • Carolinahas quoted2 years ago
    feels nice, after my recent series of nervous, respectful post-feminist men, to be a territory.
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