When I was nine, I wrote a vow of celibacy on a piece of paper and ate it. Lena Dunham More Quotes by Lena Dunham More Quotes From Lena Dunham My relationship to eating, my relationship to critiquing my own shape, all of that has changed since I've started viewing my body much more as a tool to do my work. Lena Dunham shapesbodytools I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so I'm careful. I don't even know where my line is, but I know I have a line. Lena Dunham carefullinesplay I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day, and some day our body just doesn't even exist at all! It's just a vessel I've been given to move through this life. I think about my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all and end all of my existence. Which sounds like I spent a week at a meditation retreat, but it's genuinely how I feel. Lena Dunham philosophymovingthinking When we, as young women, are given the space to read, the act becomes a happy, private corner we can return to for the rest of our lives. We develop this love of reading by turning to stories that speak to the most special, secret parts of us. Lena Dunham spacereadingsecret I value my health and my happiness. And I've realized exercise can give me both of those things. Lena Dunham give-meexercisegiving I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were. Lena Dunham like-youwritingthinking I'm not jealous in traditional ways - of boyfriends or babies or bank accounts - but I do covet other women's styles of being. Lena Dunham jealousstylebaby Every time I start feeling sexy I trip. Lena Dunham feeling-sexysexyfeelings Hell hath no fury like a woman who has accidentally napped. Lena Dunham hell-hath-no-furyhellchocolate It is really funny how even cool chicks are sort of like, 'Our moms covered that feminism thing and now we're living in a post-that world,' when that just isn't true. Lena Dunham feminismfeministmom But I am a girl with a keen interest in having it all, and what follows are hopeful dispatches from the frontlines of that struggle. Lena Dunham hopefulgirlstruggle I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way and then you hit your head on something. Lena Dunham womendancingfeelings I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now. Lena Dunham hatewantpeople I have to remind myself that when you exercise, there is a natural calm that comes from knowing that you did something with your body that day. Actually going and working out makes everything else easier and better. Lena Dunham work-outknowingexercise I think some people are really connected to who they were as children. And some people aren't. Lena Dunham childrenpeoplethinking Can we call a moratorium on the use of the term 'ladyparts'? Grazia! Lena Dunham empoweringuseinspirational I remember it made me feel better because so many of my friends at school. Were doing that stuff and doing that stuff on sleep overs. But I just didn't feel ready. It wasn't like I had any judgment of it being two women. It would have scared me as much if not more. I was like a three month period in which all the words sleep over was code for was "let's get together and touch each other's vaginas." and I was. Haunted. And I remember going home and feeling like I couldn't tell my mother even though she would've understood and probably laughed. Lena Dunham motherhomesleep You have to move so you don't die. You have to move so your brain doesn't atrophy. You have to move so that you look a little bit like a person that you might want to be. There are a thousand reasons why exercise is important, and I've had to find ways to make it sexy for myself. Lena Dunham sexyexercisemoving Feminism and issues surrounding being female in the world, always, but particularly right now at this complicated cultural moment. It's a huge part of what's important to me. Lena Dunham feminismissuesimportant There are so many reactions to art that make sense to me - but 'ick' means something. Lena Dunham reactionsmeanart
