I do think the attempt to raise consciousness has succeeded. People are very aware of gender concerns now

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

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

Younger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology

Learning to exist in a world quite different from that which formed you is the condition, these days, of pursuing research you can on balance believe in and write sentences you can more or less live with.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

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