Lena Dunham Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Education, Attitude

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

• We're living in a world where [Judy Blume] books were ever banned, and now like "Fifty Shades of Grey" is being read in high schools. Like it's just a wild.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, School, World

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I'll start by saying that "Fifty Shades of Grey:" It's like I don't have. an elicit confused relationship to my sexuality. So I don't need a book like that.

  Lena Dunham

  Confused, Book, Needs

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, Book, Ideas

  "Lena Dunham, ‘Girls’ Star, On ‘Labia Saturation,’ Oversharing And Her Tattoos". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2012.

• 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.

  Lena Dunham

  Nice, Reading, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• You just have to work, we all have to work really hard to take care of ourselves and feed ourselves good information, just like we feed ourselves good food. Feed ourselves good books and good messaging and the things that make us feel like we can be connected with ourselves and others in a deeper way.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Care, Information

  Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. September 21, 2015.

• I would have specific books [when I was 12 or 13] that had pages that I knew had sex on them that I would go and read.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Book, Pages

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I write at all different times. I write in my bed, I write at the table. I need to get it together. I'm working on a book and working, and just jam it in whenever it makes sense.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Writing, Together

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• That's the feeling [of relativity] I always had about [Judy Blume] books which I re-read and re-read and re-read.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Feelings, Relativity

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• 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.

  Lena Dunham

  Book, Parent, Forever

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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