Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars
Clifford GeertzThe 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.
Clifford GeertzMy instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things
Clifford GeertzA 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.
Clifford Geertz