Give people the power to shape their lives to their liking, and their souls will take care of themselves. Ellen Willis Read Quote
I was a ‘Big Brother’ fan. I thought they were better musicians than their detractors claimed, but more to the point, technical accomplishment was not something I cared about. Ellen Willis Read Quote
What cultural revolutionaries do not seem to grasp is that, far from being a grass-roots art form that has been taken over by businessmen, rock itself comes from the commercial exploitation of the blues. Ellen Willis Read Quote
The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs. Ellen Willis Read Quote
For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms. Ellen Willis Read Quote
I believe that body and spirit are not really separate, though it often seems that way. I believe that redemption is never impossible and always equivocal. But I guess that I just don’t know. Ellen Willis Read Quote
I can’t keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite. Ellen Willis Read Quote
My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries. Ellen Willis Read Quote
The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world – including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced. Ellen Willis Read Quote
