Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found.