Appeal Quote by Ellen Willis

For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion…

— Ellen Willis

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

— Ellen Willis

Some conservatives have expressed outrage that the views of professors are at odds with the views of students, as if ideas were entitled to…

— Ellen Willis

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

— Ellen Willis

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

— Ellen Willis

My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to…

— Ellen Willis

The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years…

— Ellen Willis

Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did — challenged me to…

— Ellen Willis

Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is…

— Ellen Willis

Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The…

— Ellen Willis

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is…

— 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…

— Ellen Willis