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.... Every question, once it's formulated, is a paradigm, contains its own internal truth. We have to stop diverting ourselves with false questions. And I told Warren: I aim to be a female monster too.

— Chris Kraus

If art's a seismographic project, when that project meets with failure, failure must become the subject too.

— 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

I got together with Severe because I saw how I could help him get his life together. I'm drawn to you because I see how you can help me take my life apart...

— 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

It's better than sex. Reading delivers on the promise that sex raises but hardly ever can fulfill -- getting larger because you're entering another person's language, cadence, heart and mind.

— Chris Kraus

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 of one person. Furthermore, it was the kind of story (dare I say it?) that women are supposed to write because all its truths are grounded in a single lie: denying chaos.

— Chris Kraus

No woman is an islanders. We fall in love in hope of anchoring ourselves to someone else, to keep from falling.

— Chris Kraus

Oh Dick, you eroticize what you're not, secretly hoping that the other person knows what you're performing and that they're performing too.

— Chris Kraus

Richard seemed to like our morning conversations about Brecht and Althusser and Andre Gore, but later on he turned the group against me for being too cerebral and acting like a boy. And weren't all these passionate interests and convictions just evasions of a greater truth, my cunt? I was an innocent, a engendered freak, 'cause unlike Liza Martin, who was such a babe she refused to take her platforms off for Kundalini Yoga, I hadn't learned the trick of throwing sex into the mix.

— Chris Kraus