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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

Topics: Against Authoritarian Culture Democratic Feminism Freedom Going Including Individual Individual Freedom Intimidated Islamic Merely Morality Over Patriarchal Regularly Religion Religious Religious Tolerance Secularism Silenced Struggle Tolerance Where World

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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Against Another Believe Kind Nihilism Openly Secretly Struggling I Believe I Believe That

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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

Topics: Always Believe Body Guess Impossible Just Know Never Often Really Redemption Seems Separate Spirit Though Way I Believe I Believe That

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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

Topics: Advertiser Artists Awful Corrupt Courage Dominated Education Face Governments Imperative Manipulative Me Modernist Optimism Religious Revolutionaries Romantics Scorn Secular Supreme Taught Thinkers Truth Well Who

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As with fascism, the rise of Islamic totalitarianism has partly to do with its populist appeal to the class resentments of an economically oppressed population and to anger at political subordination and humiliation.

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Topics: Anger Appeal Class Economically Fascism Humiliation Islamic Oppressed Partly Political Population Populist Rise Totalitarianism

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

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Advertising Also Art Consumption Corporate Frankenstein Mass Reinforce System Undermine While

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By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could not so easily be contained by products.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Consumerism Contained Continually Could Demand Easily Encouraged Expansive Fulfillment Gratification Message Most Now Products Pushing Right

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On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Capitalist Hang Him Illustration Impressive Lenin Level Remark Revolt Rope Sell Sixties Will You

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My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Attitude Deepest Impulses Intellectually Me Necessary Optimistic Proper Seems Spiritually Suspect

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I can't keep myself from playing roles. The emotionless decadent, looking for diversion from boredom, is a favorite.

~Ellen Willis

Topics: Boredom Decadent Diversion Favorite Keep Looking Myself Playing Roles

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 14th, 1941

Died: November 9th, 2006

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