Vogue is the place that we go to look at beautiful clothes and fancy places and escapism and so I feel like if the story reflects me and I happen to be wearing a beautiful Prada dress and surrounded by beautiful men and dogs, what's the problem? if they want to see what I really look like go watch the show that I make every single week.

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I had no clue what anyone was talking about like, you know I don't think I, I don't think any of the depictions of sex were more to me than just like an image of two people's arms rubbing together [when I was eight], I just had no clue.

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For highly personal reasons, I’ve been unable to join previous efforts but being asked to be a part of this celebratory moment was truly beautiful. I’ve worked with Tessa and respect her artistry and admire her consistent candor.

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I just want you to let you know that Harvey’s a rapist and this is going to come out at some point, i think it’s a really bad idea for him to host fund-raisers and be involved because it’s an open secret in Hollywood that he has a problem with sexual assault.

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I still carry so much guilt, to this day, that I didn't do more at the time, and I worry what effect that had on how she's processed this trauma.

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It’s just so crazy because I spent six years of my career being called things like ‘bag of milk’… ‘baby cow,’ ‘aging cow.’ But when she recently lost weight, some people also turned against her. FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS Then I had this experience of my body changing and suddenly I had all these people being like, 'you're a hypocrite, I thought you were body positive. I thought you were a person who embraced bodies of all sizes,' and I'm like ‘I do, I just also understand that bodies change, we live a long time, things happen.’ Dunham told DeGeneres she the comments irked her. I was frustrated by it because it really was evidence that as a woman in Hollywood, you just can't win.

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I know a lot of people have been threatening to do this, but I really will, i know a lovely place in Vancouver and I can get my work done from there.

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I have received more hostility for voting for a qualified female candidate than I have ever received anywhere from the American right wing, the fact that other members of the Democratic Party have spoken to me like I was an ill informed child for voting for someone who represents everything I think this country should be is outrageous.

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I'm embarrassed to say this but it took me far too long to start voting. I had been of legal age for more than four years before I cast my first vote in the 2008 presidential election, it's not that I didn't care, but I didn't believe that me caring mattered. It was impossible for me to comprehend that one young woman checking a box after waiting in a long line could matter on a national level.

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There was a real chance that if things hadn't gone the way they did in 2012, Mitt Romney would be the president right now and we would be facing even more terrifying setbacks for women's rights nationally, its no secret that women's rights matter to me, that's why my Twitter feed is littered w so much heinous violence.

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She wasn't always sort of this political titan figure. by Lena Dunham

She wasn't always sort of this political titan figure.

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When I was raped, I felt powerless. I felt my value had been determined by someone else, someone who sent me the message that body was not my own my choices were meaningless, it took years to recognize my personal worth was not tied to my assault, that the voices telling me I deserved this were phantoms, they were liars.

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I just never found it was necessary because I really never kept my life private. Those who knew me, those who worked with me, were well aware, times were very different then, so, you know, I just tried to live as normally as humanly possible. But as truthfully as humanly possible.

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I worked for people like Robert Kennedy and I thought: 'Wow, that's what it's about. That's how you change the world,'.

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If I've learned anything in this business, how stupid would it be not to do 'It's My Party' when people come to hear it?

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I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even ex... by Lena Dunham

I never start anything with a really overt, political, or even exactly artistic mission statement.

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I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done. by Lena Dunham

I guess I think about doing stuff that nobody else has done.

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I am anti-pants.

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I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural... by Lena Dunham

I have to write people who feel honest but also push our cultural ball forward.

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