Culture is public, because meaning is

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.

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

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

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

The North African mule talks always of his mother's brother, the horse, but never of his father, the donkey, in favor of others supposedly more reputable.

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