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"If DAVID RAKOFF and DAVID SEDARIS had a baby and that baby was Betty." ―Zoe Kazan

If you’ve ever felt like you were more, or at least weirder, than the world expected?
you're not alone...

In this collection, EMMY AWARD-nominated ACTRESS/WRITER Betty Gilpin "writes like an avenging angel, weaving a tapestry of light and darkness, hilarity, and pathos." (Dani Shapiro)

Oh. Hi. *takes six long gulps of water during which you’re like, may I help you?*

My name is Betty. I have depression. I have passion. I have tits the size of printers. And also: I have a brain full of women.

There’s Blanche VonFuckery, Ingrid St. Rash, and a host of others―some cowering in sweatpants, some howling plans for revolution, and one, oh God, and one . . . slowly vomiting up a crow? Worried for her. These women take turns at the wheel. That’s why I feel like a million selves. With a raised eyebrow and a soul-scalpel, I’d like to tell you how I got this way. Because maybe you feel this way too.

Let’s hop from wild dissections of modern womanhood to boarding school musings to the glossy cringe of Hollywood. Let’s laugh at my failures and then quietly hope with me for the dream. Whether that dream is love or liberation or enough IMDB credits to taze the demon snapping at my ankles, we won’t know until the shit-fanning end.

As a dear friend said after reading this book, it’s “either a masterpiece, or it’s…completely…” and then she glazed over into a haunted stare. Reader? This book is my opus and it is chaos.

Welcome to All the Women in My Brain.

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"An excoriating yet deeply comical collection of essays." ―Bustl

"You must put down whatever is not thrilling you and immediately pick up this wildly original, laugh-out-loud, freakishly-incisive debut."
― Lisa Taddeo, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal

“Betty Gilpin writes like an avenging angel, weaving a tapestry of light and darkness, hilarity, and pathos. This is a firecracker of a book, and with it, Gilpin has taken up residence with the rest of the women in my brain.”
― Dani Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance

"Betty Gilpin's voice is unlike anyone else's, in the best way. I laughed so hard, I cried, I gasped with recognition – I wanted to stay inside Betty's brain for as long as possible."
– Blythe Roberson, author of How to Date Men When You Hate Men

"With a mimosa in one hand and a hacksaw in the other, Betty Gilpin examines (and eviscerates) our preconceptions of womanhood, love, friendship, acting, Hollywood, and pretty much all other conventions that stand in her way. A writer of incomparable talent, Gilpin is real, raw, complicated―and mordantly funny."
– Phuc Tran, award winning author of Sigh, Gone

"Do you love Postcards from the Edge? Eve Babitz? Yourself, enough to experience joy? Then read this book. Betty Gilpin has articulated the mindfucks of being a woman and/or performer that I have longed to see explored, and found every gleefully absurd joke and profound insight hiding among them. I would follow her and her brainwomen to the ends of the earth."
― Tavi Gevinson, actor, writer, and founder of Rookie

"Working with the material of her own life as an actor... Gilpin critiques societal expectations that circumscribe creative women to docile beings, while suggesting that it’s the unruly parts of women’s minds that should be tended to as wellsprings of creativity."
― Publishers Weekly

"Gilpin is genuinely funny as a commentator on her own misadventures...The writing comes alive...when the author digs into the specific indignities she endured during her journey through the gauntlet of endless auditions and the merciless whims of those who orchestrated them."
― Kirkus Reviews

"Betty Gilpin, star of GLOW and The Hunt (and the upcoming series Three Women and Mrs. Davis), speaks her own creative language in this collection of thoughtful and often comic musings on identity, nonconformity, and what it means to make a living by pretending to be other people... Take the time to decode her metaphor-rich parlance and unique terminology, and you’ll find she has much to say." ― The A.V. Club

"Through the 20 essays of Betty Gilpin’s All the Women in My Brain, the GLOW actor describes heartbreak and connection on and off set." ― Vanity Fair

"Gilpin is deeply weird and very, very funny in this off-kilter collection of essays about her childhood, Hollywood, modern Hollywood and everything chaotic thought that enters her brain." ― USA Today
"She invigorates well-worn debates about the pressures of being female, describing Hollywood’s appropriation of actress’s bodies with wryness and humour...The triumph of her narrative is in ‘learning to be a protagonist’; in regarding herself as an individual, she commands the ‘negative space’ to form her identity."" ― Oxford Review of Books

About the Author

Betty Gilpin is an Emmy, Critic’s Choice, and SAG Award–nominated actress and writer whose credits include GLOW, Gaslit, Roar, and Three Women, among others. She has―bravely―fake cried and fake died on your television with many different grasping-at-relevance hair colors. The blonde giveth, and the ginger taketh away. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Glamour, Lenny Letter, The Hollywood Reporter, and Vanity Fair.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Flatiron Books (September 6, 2022)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1250795788
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1250795786
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.7 x 1.1 x 8.55 inches
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Betty Gilpin is an Emmy, Critic’s Choice, and SAG Award–nominated actress and writer whose credits include GLOW, Gaslit, Roar, and Three Women, among others. She has―bravely―fake cried and fake died on your television with many different grasping-at-relevance hair colors. The blonde giveth, and the ginger taketh away. Her essays have been published in The New York Times, Glamour, Lenny Letter, The Hollywood Reporter, and Vanity Fair.

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  • Kevin Campbell
    5.0 out of 5 stars An altogether unexpected delight
    Reviewed in the United States on October 11, 2022
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    One might be tempted to start an interview with Ms. Gilpin by asking "when did you realize that you can write?", but having read these essays is to know that she likely doesn't yet accept that she can write, let alone with style.

    Through a series of unflinching vignettes we get to know something of her past, and a little of her journey to the person she is today. I can personally relate to her struggles with low self esteem, though I was fortunate to dodge the dalliances with depression she documents. In her writings here she is unrelentingly candid, yet with a prose that is easy rolling and polished. In style there is a whiff of Kerouac, though even suggesting such would doubtless elicit an eye-roll from Ms. Gilpin of enough intensity that she risks permanent damage.

    "All The Women in my Brain" is entertaining, very well written, honest (as far as I can tell), and hopefully also provided a therapeutic service for its author. Life often isn't easy, even for those who give the outwards impression of sparkle. I hope Ms. Gilpin is ready to accept that The Palace should be concerned that is it worthy of her, even as perhaps she has less need of its glittering halls.
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  • Adam Feldman
    5.0 out of 5 stars A wild and exciting ride
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2023
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    I've been a fan of Betty Gilpin’s for a while, but her book of personal essays All the Women in My Brain is a total wow: a dizzyingly candid, hilarious and insightful exploration of the self-mortifications of a crazy-talented actress. Strap in for some of the zaniest mixed metaphors you’ve ever seen. I couldn't put it down.
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    4.0 out of 5 stars Maybe I should have been an actress...
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2022
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    I really enjoyed the book. Betty exposes having thoughts and feelings that most of us will not even acknowledge existing so I'm glad to read that I'm not the only one who shares many of the same ideas.
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  • jack w. baker III
    5.0 out of 5 stars Betty is a true star
    Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2024
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    Great writer and actor.
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  • Nikki Hailey
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good and bad and also neither
    Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2025
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    Maybe it's because I listened to it, and I don't do many audio books, but I could not stay involved with this book. The first chapter is so frenetic, I kept thinking "Wait, what?" and running it back over and over because it just didn't make any sense to me. Maybe I should try reading it? Listening while driving definitely didn't work. It settled in a bit after that, but by then I was just kind of over it, and had forgotten about it and that I didn't finish it until just now when I saw it sitting my "review" section. Sorry, Betty. One day I will have to buy a hard copy because otherwise, I am a huge fan.
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  • Diane Burroughs
    5.0 out of 5 stars Off-Beat Relatable Book
    Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2023
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    “My brain is a room full of women who take turns at the wheel.” ~ Betty Gilpin

    Betty Gilpin is best known for portraying Debbie "Liberty Belle" Eagan in the Netflix comedy series GLOW, for which she was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Reading Betty’s memoir is like viewing a piece of abstract art, mesmerizing, and as a viewer, drawing (pun intended) your own meaningful interpretations.

    Truth vomiting is this author’s style, meaning uncensored and impulsive and she creatively crafts her story on the page. She’s transparent about her acting career, family of origin, her human flawed complexities, sharing her journey with depression, and the retched abyss of self-protection. Once Gilpin discovered the world of loving another human and experiencing it as a superpower, she was able to get married and have a child.

    This off-beat, relatable book gives the female psyche permission to deal with the disturbing messages we tell ourselves by embracing our crazy cranium dialogues and learning their purposes. The end result is admitting we all have insane, obscure, and extraordinary thoughts. We also have an inner magnificence in our hands to reveal and act upon.
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  • CW STL
    5.0 out of 5 stars An entertaining and intriguing must read!
    Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2023
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    Sometimes Betty Gilpin’s writing read as memoir and sometimes as a stream of consciousness and mostly she pulled me in with insight and heartbreak and humor. I loved it!!! Her creativity is off the charts!
    She gave the women in my brain validation, thank you!
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  • Forest City
    4.0 out of 5 stars Actually, a Social Psychology Treatise on Social Phobias
    Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2022
    I wasn't familiar with Betty Gilpin before I read this book. Or so I thought. I caught part of her interview with Steven Colbert one evening and was quite charmed by her sociological assessments. After catching the same interview in full on a repeat, I had to give this book a look. In retrospect, I had watched Gilpin as part of the cast of Masters of Sex, I just hadn't registered who she was (sorry Betty).

    This is a powerful, important book, especially the first chapter. Without once mentioning Mead's "Looking Glass-Self" or Erving Goffman's "Frame Analysis" she employees these type of theories, as well as some of her own theories to her internal mental world and external life. I listened to the audiobook, and she does a masterful job reading her own text. Her writing skills are exemplary.

    This is also an important book to give a full psychological accounting of what it means to struggle with the social world and social phobias.

    Why 4 stars and not 5? I'll admit the pace slowed in the second half, and the topics drifted into a bit of minutia that didn't hold my attention as much. She said no one wants to hear about a dog dying...and well it's true lol. It also started to become a bit too much social phobia. I wanted to shout, Betty! Don't you like your body yet?? I also started getting the feeling that her excellent writing skills were almost a cover for there being no specific one self that could step forward and "be" her. Heck, maybe she would agree...she very well might.

    But I was impatient. Without giving any spoilers, she does wrap things up tidily with lessons definitely learned. If you are someone who has felt like an outsider because you're an overthinker and/or feel like the way you present in society doesn't always match well with your internal dialogue, this could be an interesting read. I do recommend the audiobook but honestly now I'm curious what this "e.e.cummings" of a book actually looked like in text. Definitely give this one a try.
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  • Cath
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fast delivery, fab book!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 1, 2022
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    I’m in the U.K. but a massive Betty Gilpin fan and saw this book was in Amazon U.K. Pricey as it’s a hardback import, but it was delivered in 6 days. The book is a series of essays and Gilpin’s writing is hilarious and dense! You have to reread to pick up on all her metaphors and analogies but it is wonderful! Gilpin is a talented actress and skilled wordsmith too. Don’t expect a beach read tell all, this is an examination of her psyche and all the women that live there, but you will laugh at loud at the pictures she paints with her words. Highly recommended
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