“What's the matter?" you asked, seizing an idea. "Did I burst your balloon - destroy the fantasy?" I struggled for a way… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“[Being rejected] hurt, 'cause what turned me on in sex was believing that they knew me, that I'd found somebody to understand.” — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“So don't be too fast to attribute yourself with miraculous sexual powers, The Christ of Love. Emma and I created you out… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Is there a way," she wrote in closing, "to dignify sex, make it as complicated as we are, to make it not… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Dear Dick, I guess it's been a case of infatuation... Mostly this infatuation-energy is about wanting to know someone. ... Whereas the… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“All acts of sex were forms of degradation. ... What do you do with the Serious Young Woman (short hair, flat shoes,… — Chris Kraus Copy Share Image
“Cause shame was what we always felt, me and all my girlfriends, for expecting sex to breed complicity. ("Complicity is like a… — 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
