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But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle.

Lena Dunham

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Lena Dunham
Age: 38
Born: 1986
Born: May 13
Actor
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
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Screenwriter
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Television Actor
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New York City
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Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.
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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.
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My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.
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I remember asking my mom, Do you think that I will ever have enough money to live outside of your house? And she would be like, You just never know.
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If someone doesn't answer your email within six hours, it means they hate you.
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I've been a little haphazard about how nude I get, and the only thing that keeps me from getting anxious about it is that I've had complete control over it.
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It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I thought, Well, maybe I'm just going to try doing this myself before somebody else comes in and handles it. For a long time my acting was just a marriage of convenience between me and these characters that I was writing.
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Things that feel super personal actually feel really universal. It's sort of the more you really identify something specific within yourself, the more people connect to it because ultimately we are all connected in some way.
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I felt like I was a writer, and I just thought filmmaking was the best way for me to express that, because it allows me to embrace the visual world that I love. It's allows me to interact with people, to be more social than fiction or poetry, and it felt like the right way for me to tell the stories that felt pressing to me.
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Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That’s not a concept you can really shoot down.
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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.
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The male capacity for turning the negative into a compliment is really alarming.
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I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.
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It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.
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Don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from. But when you run, run back to yourself.
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Here's what I have to say about being married: someday you will look at him, hating him with every fibre of your being, wishing that he would die the most violent death possible. It will pass.
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As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you.
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I'm always afraid that I'm being unprofessional, yet I continue to sign all my e-mails 'xoxo.'
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I should do the things that make me feel cool and smart. As I get older, I'm realizing more and more that it doesn't really matter if I'm good at it, it just matters that I try. My own effort, my own willingness, are becoming what's appealing to me.
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You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so that you look a little bit like a person that you might want to be. There are a thousand reasons why exercise is important, and I've had to find ways to make it sexy for myself.
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