I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn’t really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

— Lena Dunham
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Lena Dunham Quotes

Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.

— Lena Dunham

I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.

— Lena Dunham

I went to schools that were small enough that basically everyone was in a play. I played a bouncing ball in a production of Alice in Wonderland and a fat man in an Italian commedia dell’arte play. I was given some small chances.

— Lena Dunham

I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

— Lena Dunham

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

— Lena Dunham

I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn’t really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

— Lena Dunham
Reading

I didn’t have to wait six years to get my show on the air, worry that someone else had a similar idea, or wait around for notes that took my voice out of the show.

— Lena Dunham

It’s almost like when you’re young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later.

— Lena Dunham
Romance

I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man.

— Lena Dunham

I remember asking my mom, “Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house?” And she would be like, “You just never know.”

— Lena Dunham

I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit.

— Lena Dunham

If someone doesn’t answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.

— Lena Dunham

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

— Lena Dunham

Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal.

— Lena Dunham

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

— Lena Dunham

I have to take my shoes off, you guys.

— Lena Dunham

I was raised on the internet.

— Lena Dunham

I mean, I – it’s so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I’ve been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

— Lena Dunham

You should always go where there is a ‘you-shaped’ hole in the world.

— Lena Dunham

You don’t need to be flamboyant in your life to be flamboyant in your work.

— Lena Dunham
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