"Part of being a feminist is giving other women the freedom to make choices you might not necessarily make yourself."

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Source : "5 Great Insights from Lena Dunham’s Recent Book Tour" by Louis Virtel, uproxx.com. October 02, 2014.

Lena Dunham

#Giving Quotes #Choices Quotes #Feminist Quotes

“We must remain human, even in the most difficult times â€¦ Because, despite everything, there must always be humanity within us. We have to bring it to others.”
“Designing for me is a very complex process. There are many ideas that I want to express in one object, very often contradictory. The creative process in Miu Miu is completely different from that of Prada. Miu Miu is not as complicated and thought out as Prada. Rather than being young, Miu Miu is immediate Prada is very sophisticated and considered; Miu Miu is much more naive. The solution, when I am working on Miu Miu, has to come immediately, instinctively, spontaneously with whatever is available at the moment. If I think three times, I stop.”
“If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.”
“Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty.”
“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be ragged or well dressed. Let me be sincere - be deceitful. Let me be truthful; let me be a liar. Let me be honorable and let me sin. Only let me be something every blessed minute. And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”
“When I first came out to L.A., Hollywoods idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I really don't care about being the first, so long as it inspires someone else to be second.”

Source : "First Saudi woman summits Mount Everest" by Bryony Jones, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2013.
“I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.”

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