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

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

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

I think the American university system still seems to be the best system in the world

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

I think the perception of there being a deep gulf between science and the humanities is false

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