Our 11 Favorite Lena Dunham Quotes
1) "My biggest nightmare is that I do something where they'd be like, 'That's why you don't give shows to 25-year-old girls.' I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails, 'xoxo.'" [New York Times]
2) "My dad finds Twitter just infinitely unrelatable. He's like, 'Why would I want to tell anybody what I had for a snack, it's private?!' And I'm like, 'Why would you even have a snack if you didn't tell anybody? Why bother eating?'" [The Awl]
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3) "Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way." [HitFix]
4) "I love what I do, and no one has forced me to do it, but there's the occasional moment at, like, three in the morning where I suddenly realize, like, my breasts are on TV, as is a fairly accurate account of my first post-college relationship." [NPR]
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5) "Every now and then I'll tweet something and I'll just think, "what?!" And then someone favorites it and I guess I feel a little less alone." [The Awl]
6) "I used to always apologize, to say, 'I'm so sorry for bringing misogyny up,' but I'm going to stop apologizing for bringing it up, because we all know it's real." The Awl]
7) "The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming." [The Guardian]
8) It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong-like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it, because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared. [Interview]
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9) "Girls are trained to say, 'I wrote this, but it's probably really stupid.' Well, no, you wouldn't write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, 'I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.' Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don't go, 'Thank you', you go, 'No, you're insane.' " [The Guardian]
10) "I'd say my small baggage is that I don't know how to drive and I failed my driver's test. My medium baggage is that I have a horrible, bad sense of direction. Anyone who's dating me will figure out that I almost never know where I am and it's embarrassing and frustrating. It also involves me being late a lot and it's fun for no one. I think I'm still figuring out my large baggage. It could be that I like hang out with my parents constantly, which for some people would be a plus, but for some they're like, "great, I have to be best friends with two 63-year-olds now, that's gonna be my life. And we're only gonna vacation with people over 60." [The Awl]
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11) "I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look like and this is who I am,' or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, 'If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.' That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like. [Marie Claire]
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