“I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man... Yellowish Fever: I know I said I could never imagine a Japanese affair, but I’ve changed my mind. Kazu, the art handler hanging my mom’s show, is gorgeous like the strong, sexy, dreadlocked Mongol in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.”— Lena Dunham, thisrecording.comTagged: White Feminism, racist
“An uncool thought to have: 'is that guy walking in the dark behind me a rapist? Never mind, he's Asian.'”— Lena Dunham, dailymail.co.ukTagged: Lena, Dunham, faces, backlash, Twitter
“I had this dumb, Western idea. Like, I’m going to go to India and it’s gonna be so transcendent that I’m not gonna be afraid of death anymore, and I’m going to lay down so many of my Western anxieties and embrace a new kind of knowingness and bring it back to the U.S.”— Lena Dunham, theaerogram.comTagged: Americans, Cultural Appropriation
“We do a really good job in this country of basically sealing off sick people and sealing off toilets and sealing off everything that lets us know we're animals. And in India not only do they not do that, there's no interest in doing that.”— Lena Dunham, rollingstone.comTagged: racist
“She found herself sympathizing more with the stray dogs she saw than the poverty-stricken people.”— Brian Hiatt, rollingstone.comTagged: Girls, lena dunham, lena dunham rolling stone cover, girls rolling stone cover, racist
“I used to be really into Rihanna, that pop star, and then it's like—again, I don't want to ever throw stones from my glass house—but I follow her on Instagram and I just think about how many little girls beyond what I could even comprehend are obsessed with Rihanna. Like, you know, she left Barbados…”— Lena Dunham, jezebel.comTagged: Domestic Abuse, Abusive Relationships
“I haven't had an abortion... I wanted to make it really clear to her that as much as I was going out and fighting for other women's options, I myself had never had an abortion. Even I, the woman who cares as much as anybody about a woman's right to choose, felt it was important that people know I wa…”— Lena Dunham, soundcloud.comTagged: Abortion
“(On outing her sister to their parents) ‘What I didn’t say in the book is how it messed up our relationship for like two years,’ Dunham said, sipping a smoothie as industrial-grade Vitamix blenders roared in the background. ‘It was not two days,’ Dunham said. ‘It was a month.’ ‘It was about a week,’…”— Meghan Daum, nytimes.com
“I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit.”— Lena Dunham, huffingtonpost.comTagged: Fatphobia, Fat shaming, body shaming
“I was sitting next to Odell Beckham Jr., and it was so amazing because it was like he looked at me and he determined I was not the shape of a woman by his standards... He was like, 'That's a marshmallow. That's a child. That's a dog.' It wasn't mean—he just seemed confused... The vibe was very much…”— Lena Dunham, nickiswift.comTagged: white privilege, Insecure