Ellen Willis Quotes:
Ocupation: Essayist
Life: December 14, 1941 - November 9, 2006
Birthday: December 14
Death: November 9
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.
source: Review of "Terror and Liberalism" by Paul Berman, "Salon", March 25, 2003.
topic: Self, Anxiety, Despair, Another Way, Freedom And Happiness
