342 Quotes by Lena Dunham

Later in the summer your grandfather dies, and you’re secretly glad. You have a place to put all your sorrow now, one that people will understand.

Running had always been off the table for me. It just looks embarrassing when I do it. I viewed it like learning a new language – best to learn it as a child.

I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.

There’s always an article coming out, saying, ‘The new thing is funny women!’

Family first. Work second. Revenge third.

But that’s how I felt in high school, sure that my people were from elsewhere, and going elsewhere, and that they would recognise me when they saw me. They would like me enough that it wouldn’t matter if I liked myself. They would see the good in me so that I could, too.

When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

There are two types of women in particular who inspire my envy. The first is an ebullient one, happily engaged from morning until night, able to enjoy things like group lunches, spontaneous vacations to Cartagena with gangs of girlfriends, and planning other people’s baby showers. The bigger existential questions don’t seem to plague her, and she can clean her stove without ever once thinking, What’s the point? It just gets dirty again anyway and then we die. Why don’t I just stick my head...