Every time I start feeling sexy I trip.
I’m always having to be told to brush my hair.
I’m really lucky because my sister is a real activist soul and also hyper-intellectualized in this way that’s really allowed me to wrap my mind around some of the bigger intellectual concepts and really understand the language around identity in the gender nonconforming community.
My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.
I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you’re dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something.
I don’t want to get married until all gay people can get married.
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.
My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.
I think about my best friendship – which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on – as like a great romance of my young life.
I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I’m careful. I don’t even know where my line is, but I know I have a line.
I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.
But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.
Barbie’s disfigured. It’s fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.
I consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can’t articulate them. It’s a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.
Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.
But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.
Katherine Heiny’s work does something magical: elevates the mundane so that it has the stakes of a mystery novel, gives women’s interior lives the gravity they so richly deserve – and makes you laugh along the way.
It’s not brave to do something that doesn’t scare you.
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 am comforted by the fact that I find a real range of female bodies beautiful, and I hope that other people do too. And even if they don’t find it beautiful I hope they’re just glad that something like it is happening on TV.