"To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is……" — Ellen Willis

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

— Ellen Willis

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19 Quotes by Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually…
What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.
For democrats, it's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects…
If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give…
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
Music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated — as good rock ’n’ roll did…
Often men's impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire…
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face…
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going…
As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments…
For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.
I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

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Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom… — Marcus Aurelius
The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on… — Walter Bagehot
I just love Rome. It really does cast a spell on you. — Alec Baldwin
People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on… — James A. Baldwin
I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the… — Mario Batali
When the American people elected Barack Obama and large Democrat majorities, the die was cast. ObamaCare was coming. Popular or… — Bob Beauprez
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. — Henry Ward Beecher
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away… — Ezra Taft Benson
A myth is far truer than a history, for a history only gives a story of the shadows, whereas a… — Annie Besant
At first I was always cast as the girlfriend. It was a long time before I got to play characters… — Jacqueline Bisset
In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house. — Aeschylus
Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character… — Orlando Bloom

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