Celine Parker

“I've never wanted to be with women so much as I wanted to be them: there are women whose career arc excites me, whose ease of expression is impressive, whose mastery of party banter has bee simultaneously hostile and rapt.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

“I can’t find a goddamn fucking job and I’m too fat to be a stripper,” I said as I polished off a stale croissant.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"

“How is your love life, Minz?” she would ask hungrily, hoping to be entertained by raunchy details.
I had none. “Um, you know. So hard to meet guys,” I answered vaguely, hoping my lack of a sex life would seem mysterious and not pathetic.”
― Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“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. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren’t needed, that we lack the gravitas necessary for our stories to matter. That personal writing by women is no more than an exercise in vanity and that we should appreciate this new world for women, sit down, and shut up.”
― Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A young woman tells you what she's "learned"