Ellen Willis Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006

Topics

FreedomCultureStruggleReligion

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Stephen King

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I thought: 'It would be great to create a series of clothes that looked like that tree.' Clothes that gave you the green of the leaf and the warm brown of the underside of that leaf and the vanilla colored blossom.

Stanley Marcus

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Having a family has made a huge difference in the roles I take, so doing a show in L.A. is a huge factor.

Sonya Walger

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They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome

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I read the Bible, I speak through issues, I see what I think is hypocrisy in the church and things that are wrong, and I speak to these things. But I could be wrong.

Tony Campolo

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The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.

Rod Parsley

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I have a DVD of 'Lois & Clark,' and I don't know how the special effects hold up, because all the technology's gotten so much better. But the writer - the woman that wrote 'Lois & Clark' - I think those stories were good.

Michael Landes

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Well, they put me in a booth and then did some nice things to the speaker to make it come out sounding ok.

Don Knotts

MeNiceOutThingsWellCome

My son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.

Dolores Huerta

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People who work in horror know they are contributing to a genre that has always been loved and will always be loved - privately. It's the forbidden evil working behind the curtain. My job scoring a horror movie is like being the barker at a carnival. A good barker can get anyone to walk into the roped-off tent.

Christopher Young

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A creative space is an important thing. There are so many studios that feel like doctor's offices in Nashville. I couldn't write there.

Brad Paisley

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The questions I get invariably focus on Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. It's no secret Hannity is conservative, and O'Reilly certainly is not a liberal. Beck goes well beyond conservatism to some very strange places.

Bob Beckel

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