Lena Dunham

American writer, director, actress, and producer

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We always said we would only return to Girls if there was a specific story we were burning to tell,
Let’s not normalize buying humans.”... The concept of rich people renting poor people’s wombs will never not be strange.”
I sat on a hospital bed, between the legs of a woman I hadn’t known a year ago, waiting for a glimpse of this person who I had been waiting for with something related to patience, but also none at all
Powerless and unable to feel the physical changes that signal a growing fetus, I horrified friends and family who adhere to the Jewish superstition prohibiting anticipatory purchases, and I started shopping,
  • said Dunham, before recounting her journey into the world of baby fashion
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As I got to know our surrogate and to trust her, the feelings I thought would be there somehow weren’t: namely jealousy, that this woman could do for a child — for my child — what I could not. Carry her safely in her body, use her form to feed and house her, regulate the baby’s ever-evolving nervous system with steadiness, heart and breath,
Instead, I felt a different kind of jealousy — toward said baby, for the chance to be tucked into someone who radiated such safety. I could just tell she knew how to steer an SUV in the snow,

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