“Take back the night? How can women take back the night when they've never had it?”

—  Ellen Willis

From a conversation with Alice Echols, quoted by Echols in "Ellen Willis, 1941-2006" http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061127/ellen_willis, The Nation (10 November 2006)

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writer, activist 1941–2006

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