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Top 15 Ellen Willis Quotes (2025 Update)

Ellen Willis Quote: “Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.”

1. “Often men’s impulses to coerce and degrade women seem to express not a confident assumption of dominance but a desire to retaliate for feelings of rejection, humiliation, and impotence: as many men see it, they need women sexually more than women need them, an intolerable balance of power.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.”

2. “What turns me on is erotica; what turns you on is pornographic.”

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Ellen Willis Quote: “Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they’ve never had it?”

3. “Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they’ve never had it?”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one’s psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.”

4. “The will to power is the will to ecstasy is the will to surrender is the will to submit and, in extremis, to die. Or to put it another way, the rage to attain a freedom and happiness one’s psyche cannot accept creates enormous anxiety and ends in self-punishing despair.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.”

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

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Ellen Willis Quote: “My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.”

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

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.”

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

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Ellen Willis Quote: “Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people “must” behave.”

8. “Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social behavior. The crackpot rationalism of free-market economics merely relies on an abstract model of how people “must” behave.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.”

9. “Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.”

10. “As it is, the profusion of commodities is a genuine and powerful compensation for oppression.”

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Ellen Willis Quote: “For democrats, it’s as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.”

11. “For democrats, it’s as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Ellen Willis Quote: “Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with “usefulness” and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.”

13. “Surely we have had enough of confusing maleness with “usefulness” and other human virtues. If men had a more modest view of what their masculinity ought to entail, perhaps they could move on from debilitating feelings of loss to tackling their real economic and political problems.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.”

14. “If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.”

15. “While liberals appeared to be safely in power, feminists could perhaps afford the luxury of defining Larry Flynt or Roman Polanski as Enemy Number One. Now that we have to cope with Jerry Falwell and Jesse Helms, a rethinking of priorities seems in order.”

— Ellen Willis

Ellen Willis Quote: “Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.”

16. “Someone was waving a large pink-and-white sign that read, “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” I was trying, and so were at least thirty thousand other bodies, with varying degrees of post-Aquarian patience, to see the Who for the first time in a year.”

— Ellen Willis

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