"In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica……" — Ellen Willis
"In practice, attempts to sort out good erotica from bad porn inevitably comes down to: What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic."
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19 Quotes by 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…
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What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.
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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…
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If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give…
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Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
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Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did…
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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…
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My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face…
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The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going…
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As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments…
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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always…
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My first serious attempts at writing were made in 1868, and I took up two very different lines of composition;…
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No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning…
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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle…
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A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent…
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If your opponent is playing several shots in vain attempts to extricate himself from a bunker, do not stand near…
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People talk about imitating Christ, and imitate Him in the little trifling formal things, such as washing the feet, saying…
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It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.
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Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data…
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