“Why is female vulnerability still only acceptable when it's neuroticised and personal; when it feeds back on itself? Why do people still not get it when we handle vulnerability like philosophy, at some remove?” — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played out in the story… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement? — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
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.… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Back to the 1st Person: I'd even made up art theories about my inability to use it. That I'd chosen film and theater, two… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“We're touched by the nostalgia, seeing Walter at the center of our extended European family but our smarter selves find greater satisfaction knowing history… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
Why do people think that we’re degraded when we’re examining positions of degradation, or examining the cycle of our own degradation? — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Jerome doesn't have a clue. He in fact avoids the poets, with their petty feuds and righteous poverty. Endlessly competitive and introspective, they live… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“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… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“We suicide ourselves for our own survival. Is there any hope of dipping back into the past and circling round it like you can… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“No woman is an island-ess. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.” — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our own debasement? Why do women always have to… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way to answer… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
No one...can live in this heightened state of reflective receptivity forever. Because this empathy's involuntary, there's terror here. Loss of control, a seepage. Becoming… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
