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Lena Dunham Quotes

Total quotes: 64
“There are certain people who are meant to remain in your past. I made a mistake trying to repurpose you.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 2: It's a Shame About Ray
Tagged: Ex-Boyfriends, Keep The Past In The Past
“Holding on to toxic relationships is what keeps us from growing.”
— Adam Sackler, Girls, Season 1: She Did
Tagged: Toxic Relationships, Growth
“I love you so much. I hate everyone that isn't you.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Friendship, Love, Intimacy, Hate, Relationships
“To those struggling with anxiety, OCD, depression: I know it's mad annoying when people tell you to exercise, and it took me about 16 medicated years to listen. I'm I glad I did. It ain't about the ass it's about the brain. ”
— Lena Dunham, Instagram
Tagged: Mental Health Awareness, Depression Awareness
“This isn't the civil rights movement Hannah, It's just me. It's just me.”
— Chuck Palmer,
Tagged: Television, Activism
“I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.”
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl
Tagged: write, Destiny, Calling, self
“You're going to be fine. crack can be really fun, under the right circumstances, and it only lasts a little while and I'll take care of you. I will be your crack spirit guide.”
— Jessa Johansson, Girls, Season 1: Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident
Tagged: Drugs, Crack, Spirit Guides
“I know I always said he was murdery in a sexy way, but maybe he's murdery in a murder way.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 2: I Get Ideas
Tagged: murderer, Sexy
“I'd say in some ways he's the most mature person I've ever met and in other ways he's not yet been born.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 3: Incidentals
Tagged: maturity, Immaturity
“Hannah: You don't have a plan.

Marnie: I think maybe that's a good thing for me.”
— Marnie Michaels, Girls, Season 1: She Did
Tagged: Planning Ahead, spontaneity
“You know what the weirdest part about having a job is? You have to be there every day, even on the days you don't feel like it.”
— Jessa Johansson, Girls, Season 1: Hannah's Diary
Tagged: Jobs, Employment, office work
“I think I just feel how everyone feels—which is I have three or four really great folk albums in me.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 2: It's a Shame About Ray
Tagged: folk albums, Feelings, feels, Empathy
“It's hard to tell someone so young that things don't always end up the way you thought they'd be.”
— Ray Ploshansky, Girls, Season 2: Boys
Tagged: Youth, Idealism, Disappointment
“I don’t like women telling other women what to do or how to do it or when to do it.”
— Jessa Johansson, Girls, Season 1: All Adventurous Women Do
Tagged: Bossy
“Re: the threesome, I have enough trouble focusing where to place my attention on one person’s body.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 2: Bad Friend
Tagged: threesomes
“No one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone’s gonna think of to say about me, I’ve already said to me, about me, probably in the last half-hour!”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 1: Leave Me Alone
Tagged: Self-hatred
“You may not know this, but I’m actually a very modest and anxious person, and even writing 'masturbation' in the book was stressful to me.”
— Lena Dunham, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Modesty, Anxiety, masturbation
“I mean, I’ll find out when everybody forgets who I am. And then I walk around crying all day.”
— Lena Dunham, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Fame, Obscurity
“I don't even want a boyfriend….I just want someone who wants to hang out all the time and thinks I’m the best person in the world and wants to have sex with only me.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 1: Hannah's Diary
Tagged: Boyfriend, hang out, Sex
“When we are together, he's SO there, and he's SO present, and then... he disappears for two weeks, and doesn't answer any of my text messages, and I feel as though I invented him.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 2: I Get Ideas
Tagged: Ghosting, Text Messages
“Is this the game? You chase me like I’m the fucking Beatles for six months and then when I finally get comfortable with things you wanna shrug?”
— Adam Sackler, Girls, Season 1: She Did
Tagged: The Beatles, comfortable, Shrug
“You know what I'm going to do from now on, ask people if they're gay before I have sex with them.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 1: All Adventurous Women Do
Tagged: Sex, gay, LGBT
“It's like my worst nightmare as a kid, being the last one to be picked up from like school or some social event. Then all these adults know about your sad home life and your irresponsible parents.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 2: Video Games
Tagged: Bad Parenting, Worst Nightmare
“It’s like, ‘Sorry I passed you an STD but I really enjoy your quirky web presence.’”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 1: All Adventurous Women Do
Tagged: STDs, Quirky, Apologies
“I can never tell if guys are attractive in a loserly way or if they’re just losers.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 5: Hello Kitty
Tagged: Attractive, losers
“It's really amazing that all three of you have accomplished so little in the four years since college.”
— Shoshanna Shapiro, Girls, Season 3: She Said OK
Tagged: College, No Accomplishments
“Last week I was feeling exhausted, a little depressed, and self-indulgent and I said to my boyfriend, 'What's the point of working so hard if you can't have millions of puppies?'”
— Lena Dunham, The Ellen Show
Tagged: Women in Comedy, Animals, Animal Lover
“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"
Tagged: Respect, Demand Respect, How You Want To Be Treated
“Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.”
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl
Tagged: Youth, Risk, Embarrassment, Life
“I just wanna live around old people who are not reminding me every day of my infertility and loneliness. A lot of the stuff that happened last year couldn’t have happened if I was happy in my life, right?”
— Lena Dunham, Lena Dunham Comes to Terms With Herself
Tagged: Celebrities, Privilege, Self-awareness, lena dunham
“This rocking chair is so pointy, it's not giving me any room to express myself.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Self-Expression, Creativity, Girls, Individuality
“I have work, then a dinner thing, and then I am busy trying to become who I am.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Individuality, Millenials, Work
“If anything, I think that I am too smart, and too sensitive, and too NOT crazy, so that I’m feeling all these big feelings, and containing all this stuff for everybody else.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Smart, crazy, Taking Care Of People, Friendship, Relationships, strength
“Some people are not meant to be mothers and some people are not meant to drive.”
— Lena Dunham, The Ellen Show
Tagged: Women in Comedy
“I think about my best friendship as like a great romance of my young life.”
— Lena Dunham, Lena Dunham
Tagged: Friendship, Best Friends, Friends
“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
Tagged: Bad, When Does It Get Better?, The Ending, End
“I was a working woman. I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.”
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Tagged: Working, Work, Deserve
“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"
Tagged: Girlfriend, unavailable, needy, H4D-53
“The worst stuff that you say sounds better than the best stuff that some other people say.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Love, Relationships, admiration
“I think that I may be the voice of my generation. Or at least a voice. Of a generation.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls
Tagged: Girls, Media, Self-Expression, Creativity, Writing
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