When your doctor and neighbours and child's schoolteachers know you are gay, there is no closet for you to hide in. — Masha Gessen Children Copy Share Image
Scholars of totalitarianism talk about the importance of this constant movement, this forever war, this need to do battle on behalf of… — Masha Gessen Battle Copy Share Image
I think that Russian meddling in the election is an important issue. — Masha Gessen Election Copy Share Image
When I was touring with my Vladimir Putin biography, which was published all over the world, people would ask me, How come… — Masha Gessen Ask me Copy Share Image
I think there was certainly contact between the Trump campaign and Russians, which is perfectly normal. All campaigns in the modern age… — Masha Gessen Age Copy Share Image
“Faced with a brass band that was positioned to drown out free speech, Russian activists reacted to the potential confrontation with lemons.… — Masha Gessen Communication Copy Share Image
“The ability to discuss things was still the most highly valued commodity in the Soviet Union.” — Masha Gessen Politics Copy Share Image
“Where do you get your information?” Masha asked what seemed at the moment a logical question. “There,” said the lieutenant, and he… — Masha Gessen Judaism Copy Share Image
For the first ten years, Vladimir Putin was constructing his power structure, and now he's defending it. He's retrenching, mobilizing a shrinking… — Masha Gessen Classic Copy Share Image
“The Agat Institute was a God- and state-forsaken outfit inhabited by dead souls and a few disoriented live ones like Yekaterina, who… — Masha Gessen Programming Copy Share Image
Soviet mathematics was particularly good in the second half of the 20th century, basically because of the arms race, because the Soviet… — Masha Gessen Arms race Copy Share Image
Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being… — Masha Gessen Donald trump Copy Share Image
Every day, there'd be somebody interviewing me as a "lesbian living in Russia." It got to the point where I would joke… — Masha Gessen Children Copy Share Image
For the first stage of his dictatorship, Vladimir Putin was involved in destroying public space. On the first day he was in… — Masha Gessen Democracy Copy Share Image
In 'Chernobyl,' which was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck, the material culture of the Soviet Union… — Masha Gessen Culture Copy Share Image
Putin has built a mobilisation society, his sky high popularity numbers, which Donald Trump so envies, are fully dependent on being able… — Masha Gessen Donald trump Copy Share Image
There's nothing effective against Trump. Trump is Trump. Trump is going to lie. Trump is going to act the way he's acting.… — Masha Gessen Behavior Copy Share Image
Putin is an uneducated, unintelligent, uncultured man who has no plan. — Masha Gessen Man Copy Share Image
“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man… — Masha Gessen Nature of man Copy Share Image
“But the funniest one they showed us was about the need for leisure time. I was sitting next to women who work… — Masha Gessen Every day Copy Share Image
Putin needed an enemy, an Other, against which to mobilize. LGBT people are really convenient: we're sort of the ultimate foreign agent. — Masha Gessen Agents Copy Share Image
Most Russians actually were living much better by the end of the 1990s than by the beginning of the 1990s. Most Russians… — Masha Gessen Beginning Copy Share Image
I kept thinking, I'm not going to do political journalism, because there's no way to keep my principles and be a political… — Masha Gessen Integrity Copy Share Image
You know, I think that a conversation about what Facebook is - is it a public resource, even though it's a privately… — Masha Gessen Business Copy Share Image
A law is always that much more scary and that much more effective for a totalitarian state if it's selectively enforced. — Masha Gessen Scary Copy Share Image
