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Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes two new essays! NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL,

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Lena Dunham (6)

“I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.”

— Lena Dunham, amazon.com

Tagged: Girlfriend, unavailable, needy, H4D-53

“I was a working woman. I deserved kisses. I deserved to be treated like a piece of meat but also respected for my intellect.”

— Lena Dunham, amazon.com

Tagged: Working, Work, Deserve

“Life is long, people change, I would never be foolish enough to think otherwise. But no matter what, nothing can ever be as it was. Everything has changed in a way that sounds trite and borderline offensive when recounted over coffee. I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, u…”

— Lena Dunham, amazon.com

Tagged: Life Is Long, You Did Your Best, Life, Change

“You’ve learned a new rule and it’s simple: don’t put yourself in situations you’d like to run away from.”

— Lena Dunham, amazon.com

Tagged: Good Rules, Bad Situations

“Being treated like shit is not an amusing game or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone, and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to make it complicated.”

— Lena Dunham, amazon.com

Tagged: Respect, Demand Respect, How You Want To Be Treated

“There is nothing gutsier to me than a person announcing that their story is one that deserves to be told, especially if that person is a woman. As hard as we have worked and as far as we have come, there are still so many forces conspiring to tell women that our concerns are petty, our opinions aren…”

— Lena Dunham, amazon.com

Tagged: Storytelling, Tell Your Story, Lean In, Woman, Writing