342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.

I love directing scenes that I’m not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

She has a taste for unusual women, with strong noses and doll eyes and creative dispositions.

When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us.

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

You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.” I will use this line many times in the years to come, giving it as a gift to anyone who needs it.

Is what’s manifesting as a fear actually some instinct to resist being young? Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late. Is the sense of imminent death bound up in the desire to leave some kind of a legacy?

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 not made up of compartments; you are one whole person. What gets said to you gets said to all of you.