1. Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.
- Lena Dunham
2. Youth, with all its accompanying risks, humiliations, and uncertainties, the pressure to do it all before it’s too late.
- Lena Dunham
3. You will find, she says, that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken. I will use this line many times in the years to come, giving it as a gift to anyone who needs it.
- Lena Dunham
4. Things I've learned from my mother: Luxury is nice, but creativity is nicer.
- Lena Dunham
5. If someone doesn’t answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.
- Lena Dunham
6. Upon graduation I had felt a heavy sense of doom, a sense that nothing would ever be simple again. But look, look what we had found! We were making it work, with our cash and our bad wrapping jobs, with our fried overdyed hair and our fried overprocessed foods. Everything took on a hazy romance: having a pimple, eating a doughnut, being cold. Nothing was a tragedy, and everything was a joke.
- Lena Dunham
7. I can't wait to be eighty. So I can shock people by saying rim job in casual conversation.
- Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's Learned
8. I was reminded again that there are so many things we need that can also hurt us: cars, knives, grown-ups.
- Lena Dunham
9. After all, desire is the enemy of contentment.
- Lena Dunham
10. College was a wonderful gig, thousands of hours to tend to yourself like a garden.
- Lena Dunham
11. 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
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