#la

I always imagined that having a baby is something that I'm going to keep in a private place, but maybe my curse is that all I'm going to want to do is tell everybody about what my birth process was like and what my children's nightmares are. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#always #baby #birth #children #curse

I am not a particularly political person, but, as a Tribeca resident, the commodification of September 11th is offensive to me. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #i am #me #offensive #particularly

I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#anxiety #been #bit #feel #female

I had always written. I had written stories and poems. Then I started writing plays. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#had #i #plays #poems #started

I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#alice #ball #because #bouncing #cast

I've only recently realized that I have a radically different relationship with my parents than a lot of people. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#i #lot #only #parents #people

It's almost like when you're young, your friends take on the romance role, and then guys take on the role of your friends later. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#friends #guys #later #like #role

The parts I enjoy playing aren't really available to me. So I have to write them. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#enjoy #i #me #parts #playing

However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

#concerned #contemporary #difficulties #far #historical

And while national military forces have historically resisted the full participation of women soldiers, female talent has found plenty of scope in revolutionary and terrorist groups around the planet. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#female #forces #found #full #groups