“I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because ...” — Gillian Flynn Quote

“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!'”

“She blew more smoke toward me, a lazy game of cancer catch.”

“I'm probably a guy's girl, although I hate that phrase. I tend to have more close male friends than I do female friends, and I always have. I would say that of my 10 close friends, seven are men.”

“I am not being a martyr when I say that I don't regret putting my career on the backburner.”

“It does matter that it's the Olympics. I just did it my way. I'm not a martyr, and I'm not a do-gooder. I just want to go out and rock. And man, I rocked here.”

“The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.”