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Ellen Willis

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

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

I was a ‘Big Brother’ fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about.

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues.

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

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

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

You don’t have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

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

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

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

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

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

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don’t know.

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

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

Ellen Willis

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

– Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis

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

– Ellen Willis

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