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

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! Hi iii." 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

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.

— Lena Dunham

Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.

— Lena Dunham

My mom knows pretty well how I see her.

— Lena Dunham

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine.

— Lena Dunham

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

— Lena Dunham

Remember when you discovered your father owned a book called "How To Disappear and Never Be Found?" You're sure it was just research for new and creative ways of thinking, for concepts that might apply to his work, but it raised the distinct possibility that there is something very upsetting that people you love could do instead of dying.

— Lena Dunham

That is because no one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any mean thing someone's going to think of to say about me, I've already said to me, about me, probably within the last half hour.

— Lena Dunham

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