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

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

If there's ever a place where you can't argue that you can put the facts over here and the text over there and see if they fit, it is surely in anthropology

My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

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