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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The mystical impulse in men is somehow a desire to possess the universe. In women, it's a desire to be possessed.
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Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.
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I'm a Democrat.
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I had a very strong-willed mother, who I totally adored. She was always in control of her life.
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The heart of standing is that you cannot fly.
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There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'
