Lena Dunham Quotes
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Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.
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I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.
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At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.
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Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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A mate of mine told me recently, 'It's the first time I've seen you work, Worthington.' I thought that was quite funny, but he was right.
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If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
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I have an unfortunate personality.
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Half of the great comedians I've had in my shows and that I paid a lot of money to and who made my customers shriek were not only not funny to me, but I couldn't understand why they were funny to anybody.
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I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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I was in Toronto when the big Women's March was going on, and I thought, 'Well, I've never been to a protest, and I can't sit this one out, and they're having a gathering here in Toronto, so I may as well go,' and gosh, I didn't expect 60,000 or 65,000 people to be there - it was huge! It was something that I didn't feel I could sit out at all.
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Everybody in the South loves the one closeted homosexual who's married. It's just too funny to not have in a movie about the South. It's an epidemic. You gotta represent!
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I don't believe in categorising a gender, as it makes for discord. People always say, 'That's what men are like' or, 'That's what women do'; I don't really feel that at all. I think that's because I have two fathers, three brothers, a husband and two sons. I'm surrounded by maleness, and I couldn't possibly summarise them into a type.
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I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.
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I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called 'How to Dance Properly,' a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it.
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
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Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.
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We need to notice and be aware of the injustices embedded in our criminal system.
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It required 85 parts by weight of oxygen and 15 parts of hydrogen to compose 100 parts of water.
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There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
