I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.

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

What we call our data are really our own constructions of other people’s constructions of what they and their compatriots are up to.

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

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

Anthropology never has had a distinct subject matter, and because it doesn't have a real method, there's a great deal of anxiety over what it is

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