Lena Dunham Quotes

I think as humans we do want to control our relationships, and you can't. It's probably better that you can't. That wouldn't be a real relationship, and we'd never learn and grow.

There comes a crossroads in every marriage where you grow together or grow apart. I outgrew Len. He wanted me to be in that leather jumpsuit for the rest of my life and do nothing else. He constrained me. It got to a point where the marriage died or I did.

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

A relationship is work, and it changes. And you go with the changes. It's more good times than bad times, but it's not always good. You have to overcome those issues and move on.

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

In good relationships, we are happy to grow as the other person becomes part of us and who we are.

I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

I think the hardest thing to do in a relationship is something for yourself.

I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years.

I think when you're in a relationship, either you have something or your partner generally has something that you're having to deal with.

I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

Marriage is an attempt to solve problems together which you didn't even have when you were on your own.

My marriage? Up to now everything's okay. But it's a real marriage - imperfect and very difficult. It's all about people evolving somewhat simultaneously through their lives. I think we've emotionally evolved.

It's one thing to have a relationship, to lay your hands on it, and another to make it continue and last. That's something I haven't talked about much in my comic strips, and it's certainly something I'm interested in.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

My one area of vulnerability was I didn't know how to have a healthy relationship with a man.

I knew that it was harder to unite two lives than I had imagined growing up. I knew that relationships could be fragile.

Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.

All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

If it's not working before you get married, marriage isn't going to fix it.

Once I found professional happiness, it gave me time to think about other areas in my life in which I wasn't happy. The next obvious candidate for introspection was my marriage.

Danny and I worked really hard in the beginning of the relationship to find different levels of this couple.

I wouldn't change being married. It was good for me, and I was happy for a period of time, and I learned a lot about myself.