Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned”. Lena Dunham
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Updated 2017
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Copyright © 2014, 2015 by Lena Dunham
Lena Dunham asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work
Not That Kind of Girl is a work of nonfiction. Some names and identifying details have been changed.
Illustrations by Joana Avillez
Edna St. Vincent Millay, excerpt from a letter to Edith Wynne Matthison (July 6, 1917)
from Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay, edited by Allan Ross Macdougall. Copyright 1952 by Norma Millay Ellis. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Holly Peppe, Literary Executor, The Millay Society, www.millay.org.
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For my family, of course.
For Nora.
And for Jack,
who is just as she said he would be.
Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she would gaze out over the solitude of her life with desperate eyes, seeking some white sail in the mists of the far-off horizon. She did not know what this chance event would be, what wind would drive it to her, what shore it would carry her to, whether it was a longboat or a three-decked vessel, loaded with anguish or filled with happiness up to the portholes. But each morning, when she awoke, she hoped it would arrive that day.…
—GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, Madame Bovary
How quickly you transform the energy life throws you into folded bows of art.
—MY FATHER, admonishing me
Dedication
Epigraph
Section I Love & Sex
Take My Virginity (No, Really, Take It)
Platonic Bed Sharing: A Great Idea (for People Who Hate Themselves)
18 Unlikely Things I’ve Said Flirtatiously
Igor: Or, My Internet Boyfriend Died and So Can Yours
Sharing Concerns: My Worst Email Ever, with Footnotes
Girls & Jerks
Barry
Falling in Love
Section II Body
“Diet” Is a Four-Letter Word: How to Remain 10 Lbs. Overweight Eating Only Health Food
Sex Scenes, Nude Scenes, and Publicly Sharing Your Body
15 Things I’ve Learned from My Mother
What’s in My Bag
Who Moved My Uterus?
Section III Friendship
Girl Crush: That Time I Was Almost a Lesbian, Then Vomited
The Best Part
13 Things I’ve Learned Are Not Okay to Say to Friends
Grace
10 Reasons I <3 NY
Section IV Work
This Is Supposed to Be Fun? Making the Most of Your Education
Little Leather Gloves: The Joy of Wasting Time
17 Things I Learned from My Father
Emails I Would Send If I Were One Ounce Crazier/Angrier/Braver
I Didn’t Fuck Them, but They Yelled at Me
Section V Big Picture
Therapy & Me
Is This Even Real? Thoughts on Death & Dying
My Top 10 Health Concerns
Hello Mother, Hello Father: Greetings from Fernwood Cove Camp for Girls
My Regrets
Guide to Running Away
15 Lessons You’ve Learned from Being Recognized Regularly on the Street
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