Marlene

“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.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”
― Junot Díaz, This Is How You Lose Her

“Once, my little sister was walking down the street in her thick black glasses, and a homeless man muttered, “Talk nerdy to me.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“When she writes, which isn't often, I get insanely jealous of the way her mind works, the fact that she seems to create for her own pleasure and not to make herself known.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"