What one comes to appreciate about Willis, in these essays, is her delightful prickliness. It’s not that she refuses to take sides; she takes them. But she reserves the right to piss off both sides when it suits her. 

—Sady Doyle on my mom, Ellen Willis. (Also, come to the No More Nice Girls book club on Oct 22. I can’t make it—but I’ll be there in spirit.)