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Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
I admire how Dunham’s character, Hannah Horvath, doesn’t have the typical body we normally see on television. There is some solidity to her. We see her eat, enthusiastically. We see her fuck. We see her endure the petty humiliations so many young women have to endure. We see the life of one kind of real girl and that is important. It’s awesome that... See more
Maria Popova • Bad Feminist: Roxane Gay on the Complexities and Blind Spots of the Equality Movement

I looked at pictures of cute things on the Internet and inspected my bikini line for exciting ingrown hairs.
Lena Dunham • Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned
This relationship culminated in the worst trip to Los Angeles ever seen outside of a David Lynch film.
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

Over time, my belief in many things has wavered: marriage, the afterlife, Woody Allen.
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.