My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.
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Ellen Willis, from Beginning to See the Light: Pieces of a Decade
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Rock is, among other things, a potent means of expressing the active emotions— anger, aggression, lust, the joy of physical exertion— that feed all freedom movements, and it is no accident that women musicians have been denied access to this powerful musical language. I think it’s crucially important for female performers to break that barrier and force rock to reflect their experience and aspirations.
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Ellen Willis, “Women’s Music”, June 1974
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