I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

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

I think what's known about neurology is still scattered and uncertain

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it

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

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology