Author: 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

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.

- Ellen Willis

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

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

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