Lena Dunham Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• I mean, I - it's so funny, I am, you know, I am, you know, a working woman out in the world, but I still live with my parents half the time. I've been sort of taking this very long, stuttering period of moving out.

  Lena Dunham

  Funny, Moving, Mean

  "Lena Dunham Addresses Criticism Aimed At 'Girls'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 7, 2012.

• My parents are artists; in their world, in the world of modern artists, you are supposed to just go into your studio and tune everything out, and your entire relationship with your work is supposed to be a super private one. That was the way to do it and you weren't deeply truly artistic if that wasn't the way you were engaging the press.

  Lena Dunham

  Artist, Parent, Tunes

  Interview with Meghan O'Rourke, www.slate.com. June 15, 2012.

• I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Thinking, Media

  Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. February 15, 2012.

• 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

• I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

  Lena Dunham

  Parent, Wanted, Felt

• 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.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Stupid, Believe

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people.

  Lena Dunham

  People, Parent, Different

• It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay to make fun of a girl cause she's fat. But that we have been living for so long in a culture where so many people's parents supported those beliefs that there wasn't any infrastructure for children understanding right and wrong in those situations, if that makes sense.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Fun, Children

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My parents were very supportive when I was growing up and have been all the way through.

  Lena Dunham

  Growing Up, Parent, Supportive

• I actually didn't enjoy being a child particularly at all even though I had nice parents in a comfortable place to live. Just because I was too confused in generating too many answers for myself that just scared me more.

  Lena Dunham

  Children, Confused, Nice

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• My parents were open about sex. And my dad makes paintings that have a sexual component and it still scares me.

  Lena Dunham

  Sex, Dad, Parent

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

• I seriously consider television to be the people's medium. Like the idea of seeing your parents naked or having somebody go down on you and worrying about whether you smell, or worrying about whether your body is weird or what goes across the face of a person who's supposed to be experiencing pleasure but isn't - those are things I'd love to normalize on TV.

  Lena Dunham

  Ideas, Smell, People

• I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before. People taking pictures of what they eat and showing them on their Facebook. People assume that people have a level of interest in what they're doing that's maybe far greater than it is, although there is an audience for all that stuff.

  Lena Dunham

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I wanted to be a poet. I had a really romantic idea about what that would mean. My parents knew some poets, and I liked how they dressed and acted, but I didn't really acknowledge that I only liked reading some bits of poetry while I was peeing or something.

  Lena Dunham

  Reading, Mean, Ideas

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 1, 2012.

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