My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
Clifford GeertzI'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
Clifford GeertzI've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
Clifford GeertzAs a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.
Clifford Geertz