96 Quotes by Chris Kraus

I felt like Frederic Moreau arriving late and uninvited at Monsieur Dambreuse’s elite salon in Flaubert’s Sentimental Education – a.

They dug each other’s references and felt smarter in each other’s presence.

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?

Isn’t the greatest freedom in the world the freedom to be wrong? What hooks me on our story is our different readings of it. You think it’s personal and private; my neurosis... I think our story is performative philosophy.

Katherine, who tried so hard in London to be best friends with Virginia Woolf, who hated her, because Katherine was the kind of naif-imbecile that the literary men adored and championed at her expense.

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

Last week at school Pam Struger wondered why the brilliant girls all die.

The more she studied, the harder it became to speak or know anything with certainty.

Even if everything between us was 80 percent in my own mind, I said, 20 percent had to come from you. You disagreed; insisted everything that passed between us was my own fabrication.