I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

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

I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing those conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic.

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

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

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