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Lena Dunham Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“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
“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’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"
Tagged: Good Rules, Bad Situations
“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
“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
“Life is long, people change, I would never be foolish enough to think otherwise. But no matter what, nothing can ever be as it was. Everything has changed in a way that sounds trite and borderline offensive when recounted over coffee. 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"
Tagged: Life Is Long, You Did Your Best, Life, Change
“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. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.”
— Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Tagged: Storytelling, Tell Your Story, Lean In, Woman, Writing
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