Lena Dunham
Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia!Collection: Inspirational
Aren't most of us dealing with the fact that we have moms who either weren't ready to be moms or had some level of resentment about it? Everybody is dealing with the different iteration of pain their mom has handed them.Collection: Mom
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.Collection: Writing
Women want to control other women because they've been controlled themselves. It's a cycle of control. I'm not blaming women for that, but I am saying we're part of a toxic culture that's feeding all of us the same messaging.Collection: Toxic
When you're writing a script you have the option to embellish on life or switch the order of events or make it generally more cinematic. I would stick too closely to my own experience and not necessarily think about the fact that it needs to have an event happen. Realising that I could channel my own experience into a story that was slightly more cinematic was a very important moment for me - allowing myself to accept that the kind of screenwriting I'm doing is a work of fiction.Collection: Writing
My thoughts on body image are simple: if you are being kind to yourself mentally and physically you never have anything to be ashamed for, ever.Collection: Simple
I think that it's very important to be with someone who makes you feel like the best version of yourself. In some sense, your partner is a mirror, and you have to like what they're reflecting back at you.Collection: Thinking
This could very easily be taken out of context, and I think it's funny now, but I remember looking in the mirror as a kid and, it would be like for an hour at a time, and I'd be like, 'I'm just so beautiful. Everybody is so lucky that they get to look at me.' And of course that changes as you get older, but I may have held on to that little-kid feeling that was me alone in my bathroom.Collection: Beautiful
I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.Collection: Life Lesson
What a snarky jerk. (Obviously, I later slept with him.)Collection: Love
We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.Collection: Love
It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.Collection: Love
If a young woman is looking at the landscape of Hollywood, what she sees is almost only challenges.Collection: Badass
I learned about sex pretty early when I was, I remember, my friend Amanda DeLauro explained it to me when I was six and then I went home and I told my parents, "Oh my God, Amanda said this ridiculous thing, can you believe how stupid this is? She's insane.Collection: Sex
The idea of being a feminist-so many women have come to this idea of it being anti-male and not able to connect with the opposite sex-but what feminism is about is equality and human rights. For me that is just an essential part of my identity. I hope [Girls] contributes to a continuance of feminist dialogueCollection: Girl
I took "Forever" [by Judy Blume] to the bathroom to read [when I was eight] and then I heard my mom coming so I stuck it under the toilet and went running out. And I went back later to check for it. And it was gone.Collection: Mom
I kind of look like every other girl walking around.Collection: Girl
The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.Collection: Choices
I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.Collection: Sex
The fact is that I write under duress, often in my bed, often at the last minute. I'm kind of a binge writer I would say, which I don't support. I was always kind of that way. Probably the time I was the most regular as a writer was college. It was like, what else is there to do when you're living in the Midwest studying creative writing?Collection: Writing
My parents are pretty liberal. But they were just you know trying to look out for my innocence or whatever. But my babysitter had "Forever" [by Judy Blume]. And I said "Well I've read Judy Blume books, can I borrow that?" And she said no, this one's not appropriate for you. Which obviously, got me really worked up. So I took it.Collection: Book
Calling someone a drama queen is so negative. Why not 'content creator'?Collection: Queens
I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. 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.Collection: Memories
That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.Collection: Book
I think we all feel that way when we're young we don't think teachers have lives. We don't think therapists have lives. We don't think doctors have lives.Collection: Teacher
One of the reasons I'm so proud of my mother is she took her skills of over a 40 years photographic career and translated that to a film.Collection: Mother
I don't think anyone would want to come to my gallery show.Collection: Thinking
I'm so in awe of what visual artists do and I do understand the differences of what visual artists do. I have a small art collection I hope to expand.Collection: Art
My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.Collection: Children
I'm just waiting to be 85 and be in a pajama community. Everyone's welcome to join me.Collection: Community
But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.Collection: Order
I would rather spend my entire life doing nothing than have my name attached to something mediocre.Collection: Names
I have to take my shoes off, you guys.Collection: High Heels
Escapism for me can come in the form of someone else's reality.Collection: Reality
Okay, 'Best Party Ever' -- to me, that's like saying 'Best Gym Ever' or 'Best Nature Documentary Ever,' like how good can it really be?Collection: Party
Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.Collection: Fall
I also really like to read good books and I don't have enough time to do it. So it's really hard for me to imagine willingly submitting myself to a trilogy of books that I've been told are at the fourth grade reading level which isn't a very nice thing to say but.Collection: Nice
It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.Collection: Brave
I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.Collection: Girlfriend
I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.Collection: Wish
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, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.Collection: Regret
I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.Collection: Kissing
I really loved ["The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P" by Adelle Waldman]. It's having a really hot moment. Unlike many hot books, it's actually really wonderful. I tend to have that reaction: I don't want to read it if everyone thinks it's cool. It was a really interesting insight into being young and male. Now that made me feel really thankful for my boyfriend and really thankful because he wasn't like that protagonist, but I know so many people who are like that protagonist.Collection: Book
I am thinking particularly of a shower I took where the lower half of my body was under the running water and the upper half was laid out on the bath mat, eating a loaf of bread.Collection: Running
When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.Collection: Pieces
This weird pressure that mothers are put under, like this idea that if you can't breastfeed, you're not doing something properly, or if you choose not to.Collection: Mother
I think about my best friendship - which the Marnie-Hannah friendship in Girls is based on - as like a great romance of my young life.Collection: Friendship
I sort of tend to equate tattoos with prisoners, punks or people with a high level of self-confidence. I don’t necessarily have a covered-in-tattoos personality.Collection: Tattoo
I don't want to get married until all gay people can get married.Collection: Gay