“Their breakup was the first time she wondered if she was worth loving.”— Lena Dunham, Vogue, vogue.com
“I just wanna live around old people who are not reminding me every day of my infertility and loneliness. A lot of the stuff that happened last year couldn’t have happened if I was happy in my life, right?”— Lena Dunham, thecut.com
“Lena Dunham may be the first person to fabricate details of her alleged rape, then proclaim all women’s claims need to be believed, and then publicly accuse a young woman of lying about having been raped. Finally, the star and creator of “Girls” has been exposed as the empty vessel she is.”— Maureen Callahan, nypost.com
“Lena has been schooled SO many times -especially on what it means to stand with black women. And time and time again, she chooses not to.”— Brittany Packnett, twitter.com
“The truth is Lena Dunham’s feminism is exclusively for white women and white men. When she tweeted back in August “things women don’t lie about: rape.” she meant white women don’t lie about rape and furthermore white men don’t lie about not raping women of colour. Why else would she tweet so thought…”— Danielle Dash, danielledash.com
“Her feminism is less a philosophy to which she is committed than a brand from which she is willing to profit when it is convenient to her and abandon when it is not. o one’s feminism is ever going to be completely pure — but Dunham’s keeps revealing more and more flaws... A consequence of a more dee…”— Constance Grady, vox.com
“She and I ran in the same circles in college. I avoided those people [Dunham and her friends] like the plague because of their well-known racism. I’d call their strain ‘hipster racism,’ which typically uses sarcasm as cover, and in the end, it looks a lot like gaslighting — ‘It’s just a joke. Why ar…”— zinziclemmons, twitter.com
“Mainstream feminism is riddled with classism, racism, and sexual orientation discrimination... Feminists in positions of power in ‘the movement’ aren’t ready to confront their own racism and white privilege, so it’s uncomfortable for them to discuss Dunham’s.””— Deva Cats Baril, thedailybeast.com
“The problem with "Girls" is that while the show reaches — and succeeds, in many ways — to show female characters that are not caricatures, it feels alienating, a party of four engineered to appeal to a very specific subset of the television viewing audience, when the show has the potential to be so…”— Jenna Wortham, thehairpin.com
“Dunham’s defense of Miller looked like the worst kind of hypocrisy. She was apparently willing to publicly state that it’s terrible when people refuse to believe that their friends and colleagues might be capable of hurting women, but if it’s her friend and colleague in question, then everyone shoul…”— Constance Grady, vox.com
“People make mistakes, but people who really want to change grow from it and grow up. Lena Dunham doesn't want to grow.”— Princess Weekes, themarysue.com
“Lena Dunham doesn't believe her white male friend raped her black female costar? Color me shocked. Almost like white feminism is really only about uplifting and supporting white women as they pursue their ultimate capitalistic goals of sharing the role with men as oppressors.”— Kat Blaque, twitter.com
“Lena Dunham be like: women coming forward about sexual assault are so important but only if the assaulter is not someone i know personally.”— Luisa Haynes, twitter.com
“I had willingly entered into an unwinnable chess game, casting myself in the role of the young, dumb literary stereotype because at least I would get a chance to exist at all.”— Dana Schwartz, observer.com
“We celebrate the Kate Middletons and the Amal Clooney’s for being chosen, or, in the active voice, for landing, an accomplished man. Amal Clooney is a spectacularly accomplished woman in her own right, but how many other esteemed human rights lawyers can you name? Had you heard of Amal Almuddin befo…”— Dana Schwartz, observer.com
“I was happy to trade my youth, my body for the opportunity to feel seen and to feel special.”— Dana Schwartz, observer.com
“She found herself sympathizing more with the stray dogs she saw than the poverty-stricken people.”— Brian Hiatt, rollingstone.com