{"author":"Lena Dunham","author_id":"Lena+Dunham","total_quotes":49,"quotes":[{"text":"Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part....I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, 'It's ok to change your mind.' About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["friendship","love","self-awareness","truth"],"id":11849,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"I have the nagging sense that my true friends are waiting for me, beyond college, unusual women whose ambitions are as big as their past transgressions, whose hair is piled high, dramatic like topiaries at Versailles, and who never, ever say 'too much information' when you mention a sex dream you had about your father.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["friendship","future","life-lessons"],"id":12357,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"I understand that you come from a generation of women who had to work hard to be heard, but for you to impugn my feminism and act as though I'm a scourge upon women everywhere, just because I refuse to spread your particular agenda? That's dark, and it's not what you fought for. If you continue this way, you're worse than they are (they = men). We are all just trying to get by. There is room for all of us.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["feminism"],"id":23778,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"Remember when you discovered your father owned a book called 'How To Disappear and Never Be Found?' You're sure it was just research for new and creative ways of thinking, for concepts that might apply to his work, but it raised the distinct possibility that there is something very upsetting that people you love could do instead of dying.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["abandonment","family-relationships"],"id":49698,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"Ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["ambition","careers","inspiration","motivation","work"],"id":55961,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"How are we supposed to live every day if we know we're going to die?' He looked at me, clearly pained by the dawning of my genetically predestined morbidity. He had been the same way as a kid. A day never went by where he didn't think about this eventual demise. He sighed, leaned back in his chair, unable to conjure a comforting answer. 'You just do'.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["death-and-dying","girls-hbo","lena-dunham","not-that-kind-of-girl"],"id":71491,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"I am grown up. That's why I cooked all this food!","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["girls"],"id":73849,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"I can feel them. The babies. They're not crawling all over me. They're not vomiting in my hair or shrieking. They're doing perfectly normal baby things, and I'm keeping them alive. But I resent them. Their constancy, their intrusion on my relationship and my free time and my naps and my imagination and my heart. They've come too soon, and I can't do any of what I had planned. All I can do is survive.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["motherhood","too-early-to-be-a-mother"],"id":75631,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"I thought I would marry my boyfriend and grow old and sick of him. I thought I would keep my friends, and we'd make different, new memories. None of that happened. Better things happened. Then why am I so sad?","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["dreams","melancholy","memories","reality"],"id":82601,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"},{"text":"Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.","author":"Lena Dunham","tags":["time","commitment","healthy "],"id":92807,"author_id":"Lena+Dunham"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":49,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}