“And now Chris felt David’s ghost pushing her to understand infatuation, how the loved person can become a holding pattern for all the tattered ends of memory, experience and thought you’ve ever had.” — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Your cowboy persona meshed so well with the dreams Chris has of the torn and silent men she's been rejected by. The fact that you don't return messages turns your answerphone into a blank screen onto which we can project… — 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
