342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

Life is long, people change, I would never be foolish enough to think otherwise. But no matter what, nothing can ever be as it was. Everything has changed in a way that sounds trite and borderline offensive when recounted over coffee. I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe.

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I’m going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I’m going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children’s nightmares are.

It’s very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

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

I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.

I couldn’t always remember his face, so my visual for him became my feet, bare and pale and pressed against the wall as we talked for hours.

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

None of my actions have ever sort of been motored by the search for a husband or wondering if I was going to have a family someday or wanting to live in a really great house or thinking it would be really great to have a diamond.

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.