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Lena Dunham Quote: “The work that’s interesting to me in other people is really confessional.”

151. “The work that’s interesting to me in other people is really confessional.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.”

152. “I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “Things I’ve learned from my mother: Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.”

153. “Things I’ve learned from my mother: Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me – but ‘ick’ means something.”

154. “There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me – but ‘ick’ means something.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “There are two types of women in particular who inspire my envy. The first is an ebullient one, happily engaged from morning until night, able to enjoy things like group lunches, spontaneous vacations to Cartagena with gangs of girlfriends, and planning other people’s baby showers. The bigger existential questions don’t seem to plague her, and she can clean her stove without ever once thinking, What’s the point? It just gets dirty again anyway and then we die. Why don’t I just stick my head...”

155. “There are two types of women in particular who inspire my envy. The first is an ebullient one, happily engaged from morning until night, able to enjoy things like group lunches, spontaneous vacations to Cartagena with gangs of girlfriends, and planning other people’s baby showers. The bigger existential questions don’t seem to plague her, and she can clean her stove without ever once thinking, What’s the point? It just gets dirty again anyway and then we die. Why don’t I just stick my head...”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I always imagined that having a baby is something that I’m going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I’m going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children’s nightmares are.”

156. “I always imagined that having a baby is something that I’m going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I’m going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children’s nightmares are.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “After all, desire is the enemy of contentment.”

157. “After all, desire is the enemy of contentment.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I especially like it when a guy starts out rude, explains that it’s a defense mechanism, and then turns even ruder once I get to know him.”

158. “I especially like it when a guy starts out rude, explains that it’s a defense mechanism, and then turns even ruder once I get to know him.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I don’t want to get married until all gay people can get married.”

159. “I don’t want to get married until all gay people can get married.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I’d love to write something for a male protagonist. That’s sort of the next frontier for me. I think it’d be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.”

160. “I’d love to write something for a male protagonist. That’s sort of the next frontier for me. I think it’d be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “The parts I enjoy playing aren’t really available to me. So I have to write them.”

161. “The parts I enjoy playing aren’t really available to me. So I have to write them.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, ‘Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we’re living in a post-that world,’ when that just isn’t true.”

162. “It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, ‘Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we’re living in a post-that world,’ when that just isn’t true.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “It’s a little too cold to be outside and we wear our sunglasses, shrinking down into our hoodies. I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, “It’s okay to change your mind.” About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can’t stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don’t have to watch him cry.”

163. “It’s a little too cold to be outside and we wear our sunglasses, shrinking down into our hoodies. I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, “It’s okay to change your mind.” About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can’t stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don’t have to watch him cry.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I’m glad if my work can make a difference.”

164. “I’m glad if my work can make a difference.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don’t last forever was too much for me to bear.”

165. “I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don’t last forever was too much for me to bear.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.”

166. “I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I’ve always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for. When I was little, my mother would come home from a party, her hair cool from the wind, her perfume almost gone, and her lips a faded red, and she would coo at me “You’re still awake! Hiiii.” And I’d think how beautiful she was and how I always wanted to remember her stepping out of the elevator in her pea-green wool coat, thirty-nine years old, just like that.”

167. “I’ve always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for. When I was little, my mother would come home from a party, her hair cool from the wind, her perfume almost gone, and her lips a faded red, and she would coo at me “You’re still awake! Hiiii.” And I’d think how beautiful she was and how I always wanted to remember her stepping out of the elevator in her pea-green wool coat, thirty-nine years old, just like that.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I’m just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone’s welcome to join me.”

168. “I’m just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone’s welcome to join me.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I didn’t know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.”

169. “I didn’t know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I’m really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that’s really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.”

170. “I’m really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that’s really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I love flawed female characters, duking it out.”

171. “I love flawed female characters, duking it out.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “Even when presented with evidence of my own productivity I think that the people accusing me of being productive don’t know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.”

172. “Even when presented with evidence of my own productivity I think that the people accusing me of being productive don’t know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “It doesn’t occur to so many people that if you don’t have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life – like using a bathroom or getting your clothes – that just aren’t going to be as easy.”

173. “It doesn’t occur to so many people that if you don’t have a clear heterosexual, gender confirming identity that there are parts of day-to-day life – like using a bathroom or getting your clothes – that just aren’t going to be as easy.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.”

174. “The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.”

175. “I think of my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all end all of my existence.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.”

176. “You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.”

177. “I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.”

178. “I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays.”

— Lena Dunham

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Lena Dunham Quote: “You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from.”

179. “You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “This is our hobby, appropriating meaningful artifacts and displaying them as evidence of who we will never be.”

180. “This is our hobby, appropriating meaningful artifacts and displaying them as evidence of who we will never be.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I’ve never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.”

181. “I’ve never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I’ve started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.”

182. “My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I’ve started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people do too. And even if they don’t find it beautiful I hope they’re just glad that something like it is happening on TV.”

183. “I am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people do too. And even if they don’t find it beautiful I hope they’re just glad that something like it is happening on TV.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “When it’s low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.”

184. “When it’s low-budget, and you have one other person on the set, you have to make rules.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I know he loves talking about death. It just takes him a second to get warmed up. “You know,” he says. “It just can’t be a bad thing. Because it’s everything.”

185. “I know he loves talking about death. It just takes him a second to get warmed up. “You know,” he says. “It just can’t be a bad thing. Because it’s everything.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I had no friends. I worried a lot.”

186. “I had no friends. I worried a lot.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “When I write I’m never really thinking about themes or the universal.”

187. “When I write I’m never really thinking about themes or the universal.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter.”

188. “As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “No, I was crying because I was suddenly flooded with an understanding of how little I really knew: about her pains, her secrets, the fantasies that played in her head when she lay in bed at night. Her inner life.”

189. “No, I was crying because I was suddenly flooded with an understanding of how little I really knew: about her pains, her secrets, the fantasies that played in her head when she lay in bed at night. Her inner life.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn’t believe I was at.”

190. “When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn’t believe I was at.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...”

191. “I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.”

192. “I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I feel like I don’t watch that many shows with death.”

193. “I feel like I don’t watch that many shows with death.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I find it really awkward to do a scene where I’m supposed to seem like I’m in love.”

194. “I find it really awkward to do a scene where I’m supposed to seem like I’m in love.”

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Lena Dunham Quote: “Katherine Heiny’s work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women’s interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way.”

195. “Katherine Heiny’s work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women’s interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”

196. “Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “After several interactions in which he questioned my authority and pretended not to hear me speaking, it was clear he was my type.”

197. “After several interactions in which he questioned my authority and pretended not to hear me speaking, it was clear he was my type.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I can feel them. The babies. They’re not crawling all over me. They’re not vomiting in my hair or shrieking. They’re doing perfectly normal baby things, and I’m keeping them alive. But I resent them. Their constancy, their intrusion on my relationship and my free time and my naps and my imagination and my heart. They’ve come too soon, and I can’t do any of what I had planned. All I can do is survive.”

198. “I can feel them. The babies. They’re not crawling all over me. They’re not vomiting in my hair or shrieking. They’re doing perfectly normal baby things, and I’m keeping them alive. But I resent them. Their constancy, their intrusion on my relationship and my free time and my naps and my imagination and my heart. They’ve come too soon, and I can’t do any of what I had planned. All I can do is survive.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.”

199. “I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.”

— Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham Quote: “It’s really hard to grow with another person.”

200. “It’s really hard to grow with another person.”

— Lena Dunham

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