Celine Parker

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

“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"

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

“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"