“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”
―
Lena Dunham
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“Respect isn’t something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It’s something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.” ― Lena Dunham
“I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“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.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.” ― Lena Dunham
“You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother, and you'll see that laer and be very, very proud.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.” ― Lena Dunham
“I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.” ― Lena Dunham, Not that Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“Respect isn’t something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It’s something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.” ― Lena Dunham
“I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“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.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“Guys warning girls not to fall in love with them is so truly douchey that it should have a higher success rate.” ― Lena Dunham
“You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself, like that bunny in Runaway Bunny runs to its mother, but you are the mother, and you'll see that laer and be very, very proud.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.” ― Lena Dunham
“I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.” ― Lena Dunham, Not that Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
“I didn't know why this was happening. The cruel reality of anxiety is that you never quite do. At the moments it should logically strike, I am fit as a fiddle. On a lazy afternoon, I am seized by a cold dread.” ― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
