342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I’m jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they’re trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.

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

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

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.

I value my health and my happiness. And I’ve realized exercise can give me both of those things.

I can’t wait to be eighty. So I can shock people by saying “rim job” in casual conversation.

It made me feel silenced, lonely, and far away from myself, a feeling that I believe, next to extreme nausea sans vomiting, is the depth of human misery.

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

Respect isn’t something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It’s something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated.