Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
He’s a firm but benevolent leader. He talks to adults like they’re juvenile delinquents and to kids like they’re adults.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
Oh, look, they said to themselves, it’s a cute little director-shaped thing.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
I’ve told the story to myself in different variations—there are a few versions of it rattling around in my memory, even though the nature of events is that they only happen once and in one way.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
He walked me to the subway, and I headed to the airport, teary-eyed. I was myself again, and I didn’t like it.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
Your godparents, also city people, live a mile down the road. She has red hair and cat’s-eye glasses; he is bald and does one voice to impersonate all four Beatles.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
He called me terrible names when I broke up with him for a Puerto Rican named Joe with a tattoo that said mom in Comic Sans.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
His skin smelled like soap and subway,
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
I didn’t tell Jonah I was a virgin, just that I hadn’t done it “that much.” I was sure I had already broken my hymen in high school while crawling over a fence in Brooklyn in pursuit of a cat that didn’t want to be rescued.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
- Why spend $200 once a week on therapy when you can spend $150 once a year on a psychic?