Lena Dunham Quotes

I have an authority problem.

As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.

I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

It's not that I don't want to hear about that [blow job] stuff, I just want to hear about it immediately. And I want to hear about it on more comfortable terms.

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.

It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.

I learned about sex pretty early when I was, I remember, my friend Amanda DeLauro explained it to me when I was six and then I went home and I told my parents, "Oh my God, Amanda said this ridiculous thing, can you believe how stupid this is? She's insane.

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.

Of course you don't want anybody to feel shame for their sexuality. But you also want to make it clear that a loud, a loud and proud approach to your sexuality at a young age isn't necessary to be a fully integrated person.

When I graduated college I had a series of just humiliating jobs that I couldn't believe I was at.

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.

Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

Everyone needs something from me.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.

I've always been someone in [childhood] period of my life sort of the pains and anxieties of being young are the things that have really stuck with me.

Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!

You can't force other people to like you and you just kind of have to ride the wave. I think I could have saved myself a lot of sleepless nights with that advice.

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something.

For me, my life goal is to be in a position where I can wear pajamas 24 hours a day. That's what makes me happy.

There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’

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.

If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.

You know, when I first started making online videos, there were a lot of filmmakers I befriended who were doing it too.

I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.

I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

I didn't have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. 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. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

Instagram what you think is funny and exciting and try not to include any animal abuse!

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.

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.

I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.

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.

Not to speak for Jason [Benjamin], but he's a straight married dude with two kids.

I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look like and this is who I am,' or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, 'If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.' That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like.

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.

Directing is about as visual as I get and I will leave artmaking to the rest of the family.

I think that it's very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some sense, your partner is a mirror, and you have to like what they're reflecting back at you.

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can't articulate them. It's a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.