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

I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done

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

If we wanted home truths, we should have stayed at home.

I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

Believing, with Max Weber, that man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun, I take culture to be those webs, and the analysis of it to be therefore not an experimental science in search of law but an interpretive one in search of meaning.

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.