Gary Shteyngart Quotes

Allowing another to be as they are is more what I think of as "space." The space to express yourself and know that you're going to be accepted. That's more where I go than with the actual physical logistics of how much time you have together and how much time you have apart.

I don't feel as though I have to prove anything to anybody.

I don't think anyone's sexuality needs to be a public issue other than to give others the confidence to love themselves wholeheartedly and to be their true, authentic self without any shame.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you're living your life doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're comfortable with it.

To know what that true self is without social pressure is to know your true nature.

I don't take myself seriously any more. Sometimes I just garden in my knickers and platform shoes.

I never felt like I could be myself at home.

Somebody could look at me and go, 'She's dressed black,' or 'She's behaving in the stereotypical way of a black lesbian.' But this is how I feel most comfortable. This is my authentic self. I want the freedom to be that regardless of how someone interprets it.

It's good to have people in your life around whom you can be yourself.

I think you first have to feel 100% comfortable with the person that you are with. I have written in sessions where I am just meeting the person for the first time and it is extremely difficult.

If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

I live in Nottingham. I love just being at home. I can shut my front door, and it's like a little haven to me rather than thinking about going to certain places to... look good.

I was asked recently about the fact I show my body more in 'Homecoming Queens' than I have in other things and whether that was difficult to do. I never thought twice about it.

When I'm at my best is when I'm truly at peace with myself and when I allow other people in and can trust somebody to feel like I can be exactly who I am.

It was easier to act, in a way, than to be myself. Somehow I just felt I was in the right place.

I don't think about my look that much, to be honest. It's what I've always known, it's what I've grown up with, and I wouldn't ever want to step too far away from my most authentic self.

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Look, I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I’m nothing if I can’t be me. If I can’t be true to myself, they don’t mean anything.

Never let anyone make you feel inferior for being who you are. When you live the life you were meant to live, in freedom and dignity

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise

The point is that our true nature is not some ideal that we have to live up to. It's who we are right now, and that's what we can make friends with and celebrate.

Be who you are and let everyone love that person.

If you don't feel fabulous, you have deviated from the path of who-you-really-are.

Do what is absolutely you and nobody else.

Going home means getting comfortable being who you are and who your soul really wants to be. There is no strain with that. The strain and tension come when we're not being who our soul wants to be and we're someplace where our soul doesn't feel at home.