Girls

Top 10 Ridiculous Things Lena Dunham Has Said (So Far)

The mother of White Feminism has spoken.
Sade Andria Zabala
January 12, 2017
“I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man... Yellowish Fever: I know I said I could never imagine a Japanese affair, but I’ve changed my mind. Kazu, the art handler hanging my mom’s show, is gorgeous like the strong, sexy, dreadlocked Mongol in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”
— Lena Dunham, Sayonara
Tagged: White Feminism, racist
“I had this dumb, Western idea. Like, I’m going to go to India and it’s gonna be so transcendent that I’m not gonna be afraid of death anymore, and I’m going to lay down so many of my Western anxieties and embrace a new kind of knowingness and bring it back to the U.S.”
— Lena Dunham, The Aerogram
Tagged: Americans, Cultural Appropriation
“She found herself sympathizing more with the stray dogs she saw than the poverty-stricken people.”
— Brian Hiatt, Lena Dunham
Tagged: Girls, lena dunham, lena dunham rolling stone cover, girls rolling stone cover, racist
“I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit.”
— Lena Dunham, ‘Girls’ Star Tells Howard Stern
Tagged: Fatphobia, Fat shaming, body shaming
“I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards... He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.' It wasn't mean—he just seemed confused... The vibe was very much like, 'Do I want to f**k it? Is it wearing a…yep, it's wearing a tuxedo. I'm going to go back to my cell phone.' It was like we were forced to be together, and he literally was scrolling Instagram rather than have to look at a woman in a bow tie.”
— Lena Dunham, Sketchy things about Lena Dunham that everyone ignores
Tagged: white privilege, Insecure
“(On outing her sister to their parents) ‘What I didn’t say in the book is how it messed up our relationship for like two years,’ Dunham said, sipping a smoothie as industrial-grade Vitamix blenders roared in the background.

‘It was not two days,’ Dunham said. ‘It was a month.’

‘It was about a week,’ Grace said. ‘It was about two weeks to one week.’

‘You came out to me, like, a week into shooting ‘Tiny Furniture,’ ’ — Dunham’s 2010 feature film — ‘and I didn’t tell Mom and Dad for like a week after we wrapped.’

Grace rolled her eyes. ‘Without getting into specifics,’ she said, ‘most of our fights have revolved around my feeling like Lena took her approach to her own personal life and made my personal life her property.

Basically, it’s like I can’t keep any of my own secrets,’ Dunham said. ‘And I consider Grace to be an extension of me, and therefore I couldn’t handle the fact that she’s a very private person with her own value system and her own aesthetic and that we do different things.”
— Meghan Daum, Lena Dunham Is Not Done Confessing
“I haven't had an abortion... I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other women's options, I myself had never had an abortion. Even I, the woman who cares as much as anybody about a woman's right to choose, felt it was important that people know I was unblemished in this department. Now I can say that I still haven't had an abortion, but I wish I had.”
— Lena Dunham, Women Of The Hour
Tagged: Abortion
“I used to be really into Rihanna, that pop star, and then it's like—again, I don't want to ever throw stones from my glass house—but I follow her on Instagram and I just think about how many little girls beyond what I could even comprehend are obsessed with Rihanna. Like, you know, she left Barbados, she's had this amazing career, she's won a Grammy…She's talented. And then she gets back together with Chris Brown and posts a million pictures of them smoking marijuana together on a bed. And it cracks my heart in half in a way that makes me feel like I'm 95 years old.”
— Lena Dunham, Piling on Rihanna Accomplishes Nothing
Tagged: Domestic Abuse, Abusive Relationships
“We do a really good job in this country of basically sealing off sick people and sealing off toilets and sealing off everything that lets us know we're animals. And in India not only do they not do that, there's no interest in doing that.”
— Lena Dunham, Lena Dunham
Tagged: racist
“An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.'”
— Lena Dunham, Lena Dunham faces backlash on Twitter after 'racist' tweet resurfaces
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