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I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.
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Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, Talk nerdy to me.
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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.
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I didn't drink in the essence of the classroom. I didn't take legible notes or dance all night. I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened.
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Sometimes I was so bored that I started arguments just to experience the rush of almost losing him.
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Confidence lets you pull anything off, even Tevas with socks.
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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.
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But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
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I've always had a talent for recognizing when I am in a moment worth being nostalgic for.
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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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But I also think when we embark on intimate relationships, we make a basic human promise to be decent, to hold a flattering mirror up to each other, to be respectful as we explore each other.
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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.
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Barbie's disfigured. It's fine to play with her just as long as you keep that in mind.
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The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.
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Here's who it's okay to share a bed with:... A heating pad. An empty bag of pita chips. The love of your life.
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I know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.
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I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I'm both needy and unavailable.
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When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it.
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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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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.
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I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.
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It's okay to change your mind. About a feeling, a person, a promise of love.
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It's not brave to do something that doesn't scare you. Performing in sex scenes that I direct, exposing a flash of my weird puffy nipple, those things don't fall into my zone of terror.
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We both followed our hearts and had no choice but to hurt each other deeply.
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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.
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Lena Dunham
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Born:
May 13, 1986
(age 37)
Bio:
Lena Dunham is an American actress, writer, producer, and director. She is best known as the creator, writer and star of the HBO series Girls, for which she has received numerous Emmy award nominations and two Golden Globe awards.
Known for:
Girls (Since 2012)
Tiny Furniture (2010)
Happy Christmas (2014)
The Innkeepers (2011)
This Is 40 (2012)
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