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Lena Dunham Quotes | Quotes said by Lena Dunham

  • Lena Dunham Quote #1

    A month into the semester, I would start showing up twenty minutes late to class again. The rewards weren't enough to keep me on task, and life got in the way. My mind wandered to the future, postcollege, when I'd create my own schedule that served my need to eat a rich snack every five to fifteen minutes. As for the disappointment written across the teacher's face? I couldn't, and wouldn't, care.


  • Lena Dunham Quote #2

    All my freakouts have been pretty private and directed at family pets and/or people I have been dating for too short a time to freak out at in that way.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #3

    Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put

  • Lena Dunham Quote #4

    And then, on the final day, it was time for the faux Underground Railroad. This is the part that no one believes. No adult would ever do that, they say. You can't be remembering that right. I am, in fact, remembering it perfectly. The counselors shackled us together with jump ropes so we were like slave families and then released us into the woods. We were given a map with a route to freedom in the North, which must have been only three or four hundred feet but felt like much more. Then a counselor on horseback followed ten minutes later, acting as a bounty hunter. Hearing hooves, I crouched being a rock with Jason Baujelais and Sari Brooker, begging them to be quiet so we weren't caught and whipped. I was too young, self-involved, and dissociated to wonder what kind of impact this had on my black classmates. All I knew was that I was miserable. We heard the sound of hooves growing closer and Max Kitnick's light asthma wheezes from beind an oak tree. Shut up, Jason hissed, and I knew we were cooked. When the counselor appeared, Sari started to cry.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #5

    But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #6

    But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #7

    But surveying those words I realized they are mine. He is mine to protect. There is so much I've shared, and so much that's been crushed by the sharing. I never mourned it, because it never mattered.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #8

    Enjoy going through life as yourself.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #9

    For me, sleep equaled death. How was closing your eyes and losing consciousness any different from death? What separated temporary loss of consciousness from permanent obliteration?

  • Lena Dunham Quote #10

    Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part....I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, It's ok to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #11

    Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fiber of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.

    --Hannah Horvath's dying grandmother

  • Lena Dunham Quote #12

    I always reminded myself that this wasn't exactly where I was meant to be, but pit stops are okay on the road of life, aren't they?

  • Lena Dunham Quote #13

    I can feel them. The babies. They're not crawling all over me. They're not vomiting in my hair or shrieking. They're doing perfectly normal baby things, and I'm keeping them alive. But I resent them. Their constancy, their intrusion on my relationship and my free time and my naps and my imagination and my heart. They've come too soon, and I can't do any of what I had planned. All I can do is survive.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #14

    I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #15

    I feel like there are fifty ways it's my fault. I fantasized. I took the big pill and the small pill, stuffed myself with substances to make being out in the world with people my own age a little easier. To lessen the space between me and everyone else. I was hungry to be seen. But I also know that at no moment did I consent to being handled that way.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #16

    I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #17

    I go back to Oberlin in the dead of winter to give a convocation speech in Finney Chapel, the largest and most historic of campus structures. In a subconscious nod to my college experience I forget to pack both tights and underwear and have to spend the weekend going commando in a wool skirt and knee socks. I am toured around the school like a stranger by a girl who didn't even go here. We stop at a glossy new cafe for tea and scones. She asks if I want a tour of the dormitories- no, I just want to wander around alone and maybe cry.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #18

    I have only touched one other computer at my friend Marissa's house, and found the experience disconcerting. There was something sinister about the green letters and numbers that flashed on the screen as the computer booted up, and I hated the way Marissa stopped answering questions or noticing me the second it was turned on.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #19

    I have the nagging sense that my true friends are waiting for me, beyond college, unusual women whose ambitions are as big as their past transgressions, whose hair is piled high, dramatic like topiaries at Versailles, and who never, ever say too much information when you mention a sex dream you had about your father.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #20

    I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #21

    I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand...

  • Lena Dunham Quote #22

    I think romantic comedy, when done right, is my favorite genre. It's just a genre that's very human.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #23

    I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened. Then why am I so sad?

  • Lena Dunham Quote #24

    I understand that you come from a generation of women who had to work hard to be heard, but for you to impugn my feminism and act as though I'm a scourge upon women everywhere, just because I refuse to spread your particular agenda? That's dark, and it's not what you fought for. If you continue this way, you're worse than they are (they = men). We are all just trying to get by. There is room for all of us.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #25

    I went to an amazing school in Brooklyn called St. Anne's that's a really kind of creative hot bed.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #26

    I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to write the kind of parts that I love for women but for a guy.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #27

    I'm not great at dating, but I need to do it to relax.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #28

    I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #29

    I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for. When I was little, my mother would come home from a party, her hair cool from the wind, her perfume almost gone, and her lips a faded red, and she would coo at me You're still awake! Hiiii. And I'd think how beautiful she was and how I always wanted to remember her stepping out of the elevator in her pea-green wool coat, thirty-nine years old, just like that.

  • Lena Dunham Quote #30

    I've never seen Star Wars or The Godfather, so that would be a good excuse for us to spend a bunch of time together.

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