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Quotes from No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays — Ellen Willis

1941–2006 United States

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The centerpiece of the cultural counterrevolution is the snowballing campaign for a "drug-free workplace" — a euphemism for "drug-free workforce," since urine testing also picks up for off-duty indulgence.

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (1992)

The drug war has nothing to do with making communities livable or creating a decent future for black kids. On the contrary, prohibition is directly responsible for the power of crack dealers to terrorize whole neighborhoods.

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (1992)

radicals need to recreate a politics that emphasizes our common humanity, to base our social theory and practice on principles that apply to us all.

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (1992)

These are the two faces of feminine ideology in a patriarchal culture: they induce women to accept a spurious moral superiority as a substitute for sexual pleasure, and curbs on men's sexual freedom as a substitute for real power.

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (1992)

Most of us felt about the sexual revolution what Gandhi reputedly thought of Western civilization-that it would be a good idea. (“Coming Down Again” 1989)

No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays (1992)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ellen Willis (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.