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# Ellen Willis

(1941–2006)   Journalist   United States

 **44** quotes in **553** categories

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Ellen Willis was a journalist from the United States, best known for *Beginning to see the light*.

## Quick Facts About Ellen Willis

Born December 14, 1941

Died November 9, 2006

Nationality United States

Profession Journalist

Notable works Beginning to see the light

Spouse Stanley Aronowitz

## About Ellen Willis

Ellen Jane Willis was an American left-wing political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, and pop music critic. A 2014 collection of her essays, The Essential Ellen Willis, received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.

## Awards & Honors

National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism

##  Quotes by Ellen Willis

> [Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/take-back-the-night-how-can-women-take-back-the-night-when-they-ve/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Night](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/night/)

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> [Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/individuals-bearing-witness-cannot-do-the-work-of-social-movements/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Bearing witness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bearing-witness/)

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> [For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/for-the-most-part-americans-speak-of-culture-and-politics-as-if-they/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [“As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/as-it-is-the-profusion-of-commodities-is-a-genuine-and-powerful/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Commodities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/commodities/)

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> [Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/give-people-the-power-to-shape-their-lives-to-their-liking-and-their/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/)

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> [To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/to-imagine-that-trauma-casts-out-fantasy-is-a-dangerous-mistake/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/what-turns-me-on-is-erotica-what-turns-you-on-is-pornographic/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Erotica](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/erotica/)

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> [I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/i-can-t-keep-myself-from-playing-roles-the-emotionless-decadent/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Boredom](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boredom/)

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> [On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/on-one-level-the-sixties-revolt-was-an-impressive-illustration-of/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/if-believers-feel-that-their-faith-is-trivialized-and-their-true/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Believer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believer/)

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> [I was a 'Big Brother' fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/i-was-a-big-brother-fan-i-thought-they-were-better-musicians-than/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/i-believe-that-body-and-spirit-are-not-really-separate-though-it/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/my-deepest-impulses-are-optimistic-an-attitude-that-seems-to-me-as/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Attitude](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/attitude/)

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> [In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/in-practice-attempts-to-sort-out-good-erotica-from-bad-porn/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Erotica](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/erotica/)

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> [The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-artificial-separation-of-politics-and-culture-is-nowhere-more/)

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[Affairs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affairs/)

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> [What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/what-cultural-revolutionaries-do-not-seem-to-grasp-is-that-far-from/)

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[Art](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/art/)

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> [Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/individuals-bearing-witness-do-not-change-history-only-movements-that/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Bearing witness](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bearing-witness/)

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> [“DOGMA: a political belief one is unreasonably committed to, such as the notion that freedom is good and slavery is bad. BIAS:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/dogma-a-political-belief-one-is-unreasonably-committed-to-such-as-the/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Bias](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bias/)

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> [A triumphalist corporate capitalism, free at last of the specter of Communism, has mobilized its economic power to relentlessly marginalize all nonmarket…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/a-triumphalist-corporate-capitalism-free-at-last-of-the-specter-of/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[American life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-life/)

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> [Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/often-men-s-impulses-to-coerce-and-degrade-women-seem-to-express-not/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Assumption](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/assumption/)

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> [Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/whatever-their-limitations-freud-and-marx-developed-complex-and/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Abstract](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abstract/)

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> [The concept of emotional or spiritual survival has an honorable history, but it does invite self-indulgence. In my own case, the worst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-concept-of-emotional-or-spiritual-survival-has-an-honorable/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-will-to-power-is-the-will-to-ecstasy-is-the-will-to-surrender-is/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-struggle-of-democratic-secularism-religious-tolerance-individual/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [Under present conditions, people are preoccupied with consumer goods not because they are brainwashed but because buying is the one pleasurable activity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/under-present-conditions-people-are-preoccupied-with-consumer-goods/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-drug-war-has-nothing-to-do-with-making-communities-livable-or/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/for-a-decade-americans-have-been-steeped-in-the-rhetoric-of-zero/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Addiction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/addiction/)

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> [The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-public-s-continuing-ambivalence-about-cultural-matters-is-all-the/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/i-believe-that-we-are-all-openly-or-secretly-struggling-against-one/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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> [For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/for-democrats-it-s-as-crucial-to-defend-secular-culture-as-to/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Church](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/church/)

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> [By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/by-continually-pushing-the-message-that-we-have-the-right-to/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Consumerism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consumerism/)

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> [You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/you-don-t-have-to-be-sigmund-freud-to-surmise-that-war-has-a-perverse/)

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> [The goal of the right is not to stop abortion but to demonize it, punish it and make it as difficult and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-goal-of-the-right-is-not-to-stop-abortion-but-to-demonize-it/)

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[Abortion](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/abortion/)

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> [As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/as-with-fascism-the-rise-of-islamic-totalitarianism-has-partly-to-do/)

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[Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anger/)

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> [Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/mass-consumption-advertising-and-mass-art-are-a-corporate-2/)

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[Advertising](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advertising/)

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> [Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with "usefulness" and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/surely-we-have-had-enough-of-confusing-maleness-with-usefulness-and/)

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> [The Democratic power elite on some level feels delegitimized by its working-class, black and female constituencies. What it wants are the "legitimate"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/the-democratic-power-elite-on-some-level-feels-delegitimized-by-its/)

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> [Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/some-conservatives-have-expressed-outrage-that-the-views-of/)

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[Argument](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/argument/)

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> [Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it. By continually pushing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/mass-consumption-advertising-and-mass-art-are-a-corporate/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

[Advertising](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advertising/)

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> [Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-willis/music-that-boldly-and-aggressively-laid-out-what-the-singer-wanted/)

[Ellen Willis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-willis/)

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