Summary of Betty Gilpin's All the Women in My Brain

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

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#1 The women in my brain are afraid. I am writing this book because I love them, and because I know the world would be better with more women on the stage. But the women in my brain are afraid.

#2 An actress’s life is a metaphor for the difficulties women face in the world.

#3 I am writing this book because I am afraid, and because I know the world would be better with more women on the stage.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Sep 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798350029529

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have written a book, and the women in my brain are hyperventilating. Some are in pilled sweaters meaning well, some are building forts or writing terrible poems, and some have blood in their teeth and are throwing a cantaloupe through a store window.

#2

I’ve been an actor for fifteen years, and during that time I’ve experienced the world as a woman. I’ve had to cycle through identities to give whoever is in front of me the girl they want, and I’ve always felt like I had to audition for the job I already had.

#3

I am at the point where the caterpillar asks for a pretransformation cigarette break. I want this book to scalpel out the darkness and ask if it looks like yours. Then I want to coax out the lice-sized brainwoman who believes we are meant for the moon and ask her to speak, too.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The problem is that today’s women, whether they like it or not, are caught between the two chambers. They can either rip off the internal trapdoor that their Alanis Plath of Arc has been suffocating under or cement over it and instead luxuriate in a Hello Kitty porny Instagram-filtered cell where the validation is better than