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Ellen Willis quotes: For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

Ellen Willis quotes: On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

Ellen Willis quotes: Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.

Ellen Willis quotes: Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.

Ellen Willis quotes: The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

Ellen Willis quotes: To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

Ellen Willis quotes: I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

Ellen Willis quotes: I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

Ellen Willis quotes: As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.

As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.

Ellen Willis quotes: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.

Ellen Willis quotes: My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Ellen Willis quotes: Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?

Ellen Willis quotes: Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.

Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.