Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"
Lena Dunham
Top 10 Best Quotes
“When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are not made up of compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all of you, ditto what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”
“You will find,” she says, “that there’s a certain grace to having your heart broken.”
“You've learned a new rule and it's simple: don't put yourself in situations you'd like to run away from.”
“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.”
“It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you.”
“Respect isn’t something you command through intimidation and intellectual bullying. It’s something you build through a long life of treating people how you want to be treated”
“I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she goes, backpack on, headed for the subway or the airport. She did her best with her eyeliner. She learned a new word she wants to try out on you. She is ambling along. She is looking for it.”
“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman.”
“I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I'm jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they're trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence.”
“Throughout the day I often ask myself, Could I fall asleep right now? and the answer is always a resounding yes.”
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