Quotes from Lena Dunham

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

There's people who don't want to see bodies like mine or bodies like their own bodies.

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.

I'd always loved movies, but it wasn't some sort of desperate love of celluloid. It was literally like, "I want to write things, and I want people to see them more."

I learned that people are much more game to mock their own personas than you would think.

I refresh Twitter as thoughtlessly as some twirl their hair.

I support Selfies! I think the war on selfies is really unjust!

I felt like my parents were always involved with abstraction, and I wanted to do something very specific.

I can play very annoying girl, very lost girl and then all the things in the spectrum between.

My uncle's a lawyer and I remember going to see him in court and thinking, 'That's cool, too bad I could never be a lawyer.'

It's very easy for me to say what success is. I think success is connecting with an audience who understands you and having a dialogue with them. I think success is continuing to push yourself forward creatively and not sort of becoming a caricature of yourself.

Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself.

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.

I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.

When I write I'm never really thinking about themes or the universal.

I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being.

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

Feminists believe that men and women should have the same opportunities. If you are a feminist you believe in equal rights as a whole. That's not a concept you can really shoot down.

The way in which you share your body must be a CHOICE. Support these women and do not look at these pictures.

All adventurous women do.

If you're writing, you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing, private, freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people - that comes in later.

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.