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Ellen Willis

“My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.”
- Ellen Willis,
- Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll
- (1992)

Ellen Willis, U.S. political essayist, journalist, activist, feminist, co-founder Redstockings, pop music critic

(1941 - 2006)

Full name: Ellen Jane Willis.