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Lena Dunham Quotes

Total quotes: 122
“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
“Am I seriously the only one of us who prides herself on being a truly authentic person?”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 3: I Saw You
Tagged: Authenticity, Being Yourself
“Sometimes being stuck in my own head is so exhausting that it makes me want to cry.”
— Marnie Michaels, Girls, Season 1: Weirdos Need Girlfriends Too
Tagged: exhausting, self-absorption, Solipsism, Bourgeois problems, Rich Girl Problems
“Really knowing someone is something else. It’s a completely different thing and when it happens you won’t be able to miss it. You will be aware. And you won’t hurt or be afraid. Okay?”
— Adam Sackler, Girls, Season 3: Females Only
Tagged: Knowing Someone, Hurting
“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
Tagged: Respect, bullying
“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
“Their breakup was the first time she wondered if she was worth loving.”
— Lena Dunham, Vogue, Lena Dunham's "Verified Strangers": Chapter One
Tagged: lena dunham, Verified Strangers , novel
“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've had men trying to shut me up since I was a little girl. What is it about little girls that scares men so much?”
— Valeria Solanas, American Horror Story, Cult: Valerie Solanas Died for Your Sins
Tagged: Valerie Solanas, SCUM Manifesto, Misandry, Extreme Misandry
“I'm just worried that if we see each other we're going to end up having sex.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 1: All Adventurous Women Do
Tagged: Sex, Bad decisions
“I don't want this to be awkward, but like you look amazing. Like seriously, you could have sex with like any girl at this party including me. Oh my God.”
— Shoshanna Shapiro, Girls, Season 2: On All Fours
Tagged: Sex, Awkward Conversations
“It's just crazy that you don't know the depth of someone's power until their funeral. It's so sad.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 3: Only Child
Tagged: funerals, Death
“ I know that I need to have more respect for the emotional property of other women and I know that I use sex for validation because it's what I do.”
— Marnie Michaels, Girls, Season 3: Two Plane Rides
Tagged: Respect, Validation
“Hannah: I know that this is complicated, but I also know that we can work it out.

Adam: Well, I'm sick of trying to work it out. Can't one thing ever be easy with you?”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 3: Two Plane Rides
Tagged: complicated relationships, working things out
“I'm not asking anything. I'm really not asking you for anything. I've never asked you for anything. I don't even want anything, okay?”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 1: Hannah's Diary
Tagged: Not Asking For Anything, Independent
“Hannah: You're here.

Adam: Well, I was always here.”
— Hannah Horvath, Girls, Season 2: Together
Tagged: Showing Up, Here For You
“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
“I’ve been rubbing certain people the wrong way for quite some time now. And if that’s my lot in life, I’m okay with it.”
— Lena Dunham, Howard Stern Comes Again
Tagged: Contrarian
“I can’t be surrounded by your negativity while I’m trying to grow into a fully formed woman.”
— Shoshanna Shapiro, Girls, Season 2: Together
Tagged: Negativity, Womanhood
“All that matters are that your rising signs are compatible, the sex is decent, and he supports you creatively.”
— Jessa Johansson, Girls, Season 2: I Get Ideas
Tagged: Zodiac, Relationships, Sex, creative support
“I don’t hate your friends. I’m just not interested in anything they have to say.”
— Adam Sackler, Girls, Season 3: Females Only
Tagged: Disinterest, Hate, Friends
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