Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

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

I'm writing a review of three books on feminism and science, and it's about social constructionism. So I would say I'm a social constructionist, whatever that means

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.