Lena Dunham Quotes

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

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• Dangerous people with guns are a threat to women.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • People
  • Women
  • Guns

• I know what women want. They want to be beautiful.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Women
  • Want
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Women
  • Respect
  • Me

• Many women, sometime in their life, are going to get to a point where they have to admit infidelity.

  

  La India
  • Life
  • Women
  • Admit

• Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Women
  • Military
  • Soldiers

• When you're a woman, you have to work harder to get a laugh... I follow so many hilarious women on Twitter. It's a daily reminder that women get to be funny.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Work
  • Women
  • Funny

• Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Women
  • Say
  • Feminist

• 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.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Time
  • Work
  • Funny

• If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Chance

• I have an unfortunate personality.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Funny
  • Personality

• 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.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • Money
  • Why

• I think society, in general, is hard on women, period.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Women
  • Think
  • Society

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Funny
  • Situation
  • Saying

• 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.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • People
  • Women
  • May

• 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!

  

  Tate Taylor
  • Movie
  • You
  • Funny

• 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.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • People
  • Believe
  • Men

• I think it's very important for both women and men to see women working in a variety of capacities.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Men
  • Important
  • Women

• There was a time when researchers imagined that Plan B, or the morning-after pill, might become not an emergency form of contraception but a routine one; women would take it once a month to induce a period and never even know whether they had gotten pregnant.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Time
  • Women
  • Morning

• Men, who certainly possess not only the savvy but also the know-how to be funny, for some reason, are just not. I began to notice this at a pretty young age, and unfortunately, a lifetime of living - and not a little bit of regret - hasn't done much to convince me otherwise.

  

  Ellie Kemper
  • Men
  • Done
  • Age

• I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Important
  • Think

• Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.

  

  John Muir
  • Air

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

  

  Lena Dunham
  • Women
  • Funny