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Alexandra Kleeman

A woman’s body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother’s, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

I think of workshopping as a way to read your own work through the eyes of others – a scene that you write gets refracted by those around you, and suddenly you have several different readings of it, each with a different momentum for how it might be retooled or reshaped.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

Both my parents are professors, and I never really saw people do any other jobs, so I didn’t really know how to want a different kind of job.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

I’ is the word everyone uses to refer to themselves. On the one hand, it points to a specific person, but it’s also this blank space that you can insert yourself into; it’s a chute into empathy.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

I went into academia thinking that there’d be constant reciprocity between my scholarship and my creative work but found that doing one always turned my mind into the sort of tool that was badly suited to doing the other.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

These days, there are times when my academic thinking intervenes in my writing, but it’s usually while I’m developing a project and not while I’m writing it.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

I don’t really buy the death-drive thing too literally; it feels overly neat and convenient. But I am suspicious of fighting back being the dominant model for cinematic conflict and personal conflict and political conflict.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

I think I may be the most well-adjusted person you’d ever meet who thinks constantly about falling out of her life. And my life is pretty great! It’s not like I don’t know that.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

Makeup is something that a female has to reckon with every single day. Whether you wear it or don’t, you’re always making decisions about wearing it or not, or how you’re wearing it, and what that means.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

We’re living at this funny time, where we’re all urged to express ourselves as unique individuals, but on the other hand, we share a limited set of tools for doing that. It’s easy to feel like nothing more than the sum of your consumer choices.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

I’m really interested in passivity as a type of action – sort of allowing the situation to change you, choosing to give in being an act of agency rather than an act of submission.

– Alexandra Kleeman

Alexandra Kleeman

I feel like women bond with other women in this nonverbal way, where they take on each other’s gestures. You start dressing more like each other, you eat the same food… It’s a way of expressing regard: I want to be like you. Which is flattering, but if you view it another way, terrifying.

– Alexandra Kleeman

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