Lena Dunham Quotes

Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not ‘content creator’?

Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

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.

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

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

The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I’m kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don’t support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you’re living in the Midwest studying creative writing?

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

Basically my new litmus test for people is, do they make me hear about a blow job they gave in the first ten minutes of us talking? And if they didn’t then I can feel excited.

I’m really lucky because I surround myself onset with people who I really trust to give me feedback, so I’m directing myself.

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

One of the reasons I’m so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.