Ellen Willis

Quotes

• “My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to fa...”
• “The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patria...”
• “Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, "Don't Worry, Be Happy." I was trying, and so were at least th...”
• “As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments ...”
• “My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectu...”