Masha Gessen Quotes

The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.

Here is what I was trying to figure out: how a miracle happens. A great work of art - something that makes people pay attention, return to the work again and again, and reexamine their assumptions, something that infuriates, hurts, and confronts - a great work of art is always a miracle.

To create, and to confront, one has to be an outcast.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

Rigidity is always the opposite of the search for truth.

It turned out that capitalism alone could make people not only rich and happy but also poor, hungry, miserable, and powerless.