Lena Dunham Quotes - Page 2

I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.

I'm always having to be told to brush my hair.

I'm so proud of Jason's [Benjamin] work. I can say this and he can't, but there's no group of documentary subjects more devoted to their documentarian. The vibes are really positive, and I feel so lucky.

This could very easily be taken out of context, and I think it's funny now, but I remember looking in the mirror as a kid and, it would be like for an hour at a time, and I'd be like, 'I'm just so beautiful. Everybody is so lucky that they get to look at me.' And of course that changes as you get older, but I may have held on to that little-kid feeling that was me alone in my bathroom.

I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.

When someone anonymous tells me I'm fat, that's not a person to me. If they're not going to acknowledge me as a person, I'm certainly not going to acknowledge them as a person.

The current economic climate means getting out of college is no guarantee of getting a job, and no guarantee of a satisfying work life. My Dad feels that this is the first generation of Americans that expects that there children will have a harder time then they did. That's a fascinating concept.

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

Survivors are so often re-victimized by a system that demands they prove their purity and innocence.

You're a small business and you have to take care of yourself the way you would a small business and take care of yourself the way any small business owner would.

I think that social networking makes people more connected, yet more distant, so there are people with less ties to real friend groups and less a sense of self.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

For anyone that has ever done a sex scene, it takes on the feeling of learning a ridiculous dance, like the electric slide. It's not a sexy experience.

I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day, and some day our body just doesn't even exist at all! It's just a vessel I've been given to move through this life. I think about my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all and end all of my existence. Which sounds like I spent a week at a meditation retreat, but it's genuinely how I feel.

Here's who it's okay to share a bed with: . . . A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.

But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.

When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.

Mine's [fans] a lot of like weird guys in prison. So I don't need to answer them.