“ Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality. Chris Kraus
“ It occurred to me that I was suffering from the dizziness of contradictions: the only pleasure that remains once you've decided you know better than the world.Accepting contradictions means not believ… Chris Kraus
“ When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless. Chris Kraus
“ Dear Dick, I guess it's been a case of infatuation... Mostly this infatuation-energy is about wanting to know someone.... Whereas the sex-infatuations that's male *you, Shake, the priest) leap out of… Chris Kraus
“ Female monsters take things as personally as they really are. They study facts. Even if rejection makes them feel like the girl who's not invited to the party, they have to understand the reasons why.… Chris Kraus
“ I got together with Sylvère because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you cause I see how you can help me take my life apart... Chris Kraus
“ Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with th… Chris Kraus
“ Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a girl's name," writes Dodie Bellamy). Chris Kraus
“ What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?"I struggled for a way to answer this without my clothes.... Well his was very cruel, but loving you'd b… Chris Kraus
“ So don't be too fast to attribute yourself with miraculous sexual powers, The Christ of Love. Emma and I created you out of nothing, or very little, and in all fairness, You owe us everything. While y… Chris Kraus
“ Oh Dick, you eroticise what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too. Chris Kraus
“ Is there a way," she wrote in closing, "to dignify sex, make it as complicated as we are, to make it not grotesque? Chris Kraus
“ There were some low moments out there on the road tonight—abandonment and what’s the point?—but then I pulled in a radio station from Albuquerque playing historical rap and breakdance circa 1982. Kurt… Chris Kraus
“ Richard seemed to like our morning conversations about Brecht and Althusser and Andre Gorz, but later on he turned the group against me for being too cerebral and acting like a boy. And weren't all th… Chris Kraus
“ It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill -- getting larger cause you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind. Chris Kraus
“ If women have failed to make “universal” art because we’re trapped within the “personal,” why not universalize the “personal” and make it the subject of our art? Chris Kraus
“ If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too. Chris Kraus
