342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

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

All children are amazing artists. It’s the grown ups you have to worry about.

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

There are no bad thoughts, only bad actions.

it's really hitting me where I live. Prose poetry about what it feels like to be young and have the whole world caught inside your throat.

A month into the semester, I would start showing up twenty minutes late to class again. The rewards weren't enough to keep me on task, and life got in the way. My mind wandered to the future, postcollege, when I'd create my own schedule that served my need to eat a rich snack every five to fifteen minutes. As for the disappointment written across the teacher's face? I couldn't, and wouldn't, care.

Remember when you discovered your father owned a book called "How To Disappear and Never Be Found?" You're sure it was just research for new and creative ways of thinking, for concepts that might apply to his work, but it raised the distinct possibility that there is something very upsetting that people you love could do instead of dying.

Luxury is nice but creativity is nicer.

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. You are made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto, what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.