" I don’t blame anyone and I wouldn’t change anything, but if you had told me—if you had warned me there would be so many periods of pain and isolation—I’m not sure what I would have done differently. Shut up? Yelled louder? Worried less or, alternately, more, like a person with an illness that may kill her but it’s unclear when? "

― Lena Dunham , Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"