Lena Dunham Quotes

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

Don't wait around for someone else to tell your story. Do it yourself by whatever means necessary.

I have work, and then I have a dinner thing. And then I am busy, trying to become who I am.

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.

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

The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

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

At a brunch potluck, I realize that I do, in fact, hate everybody.

But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

Enjoy going through life as yourself.

My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.

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

I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.

Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.

I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

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

There's a certain grace to having your heart broken.

You don't need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

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.

Hell hath no fury like a woman who has accidentally napped.

Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.

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

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

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

My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.

I love what I do, I love every minute of it.

Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.

I never set out to make any statements about a specific character, I just set out to tell what feels like is a truthful story, a person that you and I might truly encounter.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

I get a lot of unasked for sexual confessions.

My mom said the term heavy petting existed a lot when she was in high school.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me.

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

I seriously consider television to be the people's medium.

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

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

Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me.

I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't.

Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.

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.

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.