342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

Women saying “I’m not a feminist” is my greatest pet peeve. Do you believe that women should be paid the same for doing the same jobs? Do you believe that women should be allowed to leave the house? Do you think that women and men both deserve equal rights? Great, then you’re a feminist.

I find it really awkward to do a scene where I’m supposed to seem like I’m in love.

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

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

Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.

When I write I’m never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.

I’ve never wanted to be with women so much as I wanted to be them: there are women whose career arc excites me, whose ease of expression is impressive, whose mastery of party banter has bee simultaneously hostile and rapt.

After all, desire is the enemy of contentment.