What we learned from Lena Dunham about life

"Not That Kind of Girl" by Lena Dunham you can u.a. at Amazon to order.

Screenwriter, director, producer, actress - in her series "Girls" Lena Dunham takes over almost all important jobs herself. And with that, the 28-year-old American has great success. In addition to various nominations, last year there were two Golden Globe Awards - one for "Girls" and one as the main actress in this same series. Dunham's latest job: author. In her debut album "Not That Kind of Girl: What I've Learned in Life", Lena Dunham tells in very personal episodes about her own life, about love, about friendships and relentlessly honestly writes about her body, diet and sex.

Anyone who has read through the 300 pages and the series "Girls" knows (the third season is currently running on ZDFneo) recognizes Dunham in her TV-age-Ego Hannah Horvath again. She lives as a kind of anti-Carrie in a WG in Brooklyn, moving from one unpaid internship to the next, and her relationships are not going well. She does not care what her fellow human beings and viewers say about their pounds, greasy hair or cellulite. In "Girls" (almost) everything is beautiful imperfect, human just. These honest, human, imperfectly beautiful stories can also be found in "Not That Kind of Girl" - and on Dunham's Instagram account, where she also posts an imperfectly beautiful # wokeuplikethis selfie.



Quotes from Dunham's book, from which we have learned:

partnership

"If someone shows you how little you mean to him, and you always return to him and want to try it again, sooner or later you start to mean less to yourself." We do not consist of several parts Whatever is said to a part of you is said to your whole, what is done to a part of you is done to you as a whole, to be treated shit is not funny, and it is not a cross-border intellectual expertise is something that you accept, that you approve of, until at some point you think you deserve it, it's that simple. "



Nakedness while turning

"Getting undressed feels better on some days, worse on others (good: if you're slightly tanned, bad: if you have diarrhea.) But I do it because my boss wants me, and my boss When you're naked, it's nice to be in control. "

Barbies

"Barbie is disfigured, and as long as you understand that, you can play with her."

eat

"It's better to eat a little bit of everything than mountains of a thing, if that does not work, try mountains of everything."

respect

"Respect is something that you can not achieve through intimidation and intellectual bullying, and you gain respect by treating other people the way you want to be treated for a lifetime and focusing on your task."

family

"First comes the family, then the work, and revenge is sweet."



motherhood

"Over the years, my belief in many things has staggered: marriage, life after death, and Woody Allen." "Motherhood is my thing, I just know."

Women and envy

"I did not want to be with women, but wanted to be them: there are women whose career paths I find exciting, whose articulation talent impresses me, whose championship in party-style talk both repels and delights me." I'm not jealous in the traditional way - on friends, Babies or bank accounts - but I envy other women the way they are. "

Men and envy

"I am jealous of masculine qualities, if not of the men themselves. I envy them for the ease with which they pursue their professional activities: without apologizing, without tearing themselves for the people around them with the I envy them for the most part that they do not struggle with this all-right-to-do-instinct that I perceive as a curse of female existence. "

womanhood

"But at the same time, I regard womanhood as a unique gift, a sacred pleasure, in such a profound way that I can not describe it."

lovesickness

"'You will discover,' she says, 'that it also has a certain grace when the heart is broken.' I will often say that phrase in the following years, as a gift for anyone who needs it. "

new York

"Because the rules here are actually rather suggestions." (Dunham about why she loves New York.)

ambition

"Ambition is something weird: it grabs you when you least expect it, and it drives you, even if you think you're stuck."

ideas

"There are no bad ideas, only bad deeds."

feelings

"Emotions in the drunk are not real feelings."

Learn

"It's never too late to learn."

Lena Dunham on Instagram:

Life After 'Girls': Lena Dunham, Allison Williams, Zosia Mamet, Jemima Kirke (March 2024).



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