
Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s Learned

- There are no bad thoughts, only bad actions.
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?
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
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 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
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
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
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
I miss her the way I missed our loft after we moved in seventh grade: sharply, and then not at all.