4 Quotes by Agnes Borinsky

I feel like teenagers get a bad rap for changing things up all the time. We're fake or we're insincere or we're superficial. But if you do it to please yourself, what's insincere about that?

I feel like I was on autopilot for most of my life. Like I just took for granted the person the world told me I was and I feel like it might have been easier to shake that up a little when I was a kid." "How old are you now, ninety-two?""No, I know I was just...""I don't know about easy or not easy, it's just different.""Well not easy, but...""You're just doing this now, Sasha Masha. Now is your time, and you're doing it, so what else do you have to worry about?

Real people are comfortable being themselves and don't have to think about what they want. They laugh out loud and they eat when they're hungry and they say what they're thinking no matter who is listening. And the paradox of it is the harder you try to be real, the deeper you know that you're not.

Representation is chump change, darling. I'm sorry to break it to you. People who hold power don't like to put themselves at risk. And that's why Queer people have generally been the visionaries. Because when your everyday life is a risk, you start to think about it all differently. You start to realize that organizing your days around keeping yourself protected is dumb as shit and that there's a whole universe of meaning and connection when you get beyond that.