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.

We don't know what we think until we see what we say.

As a religious problem, the problem of suffering is, paradoxically, not how to avoid suffering but how to suffer, how to make of physical pain, personal loss, worldly defeat, or the helpless contemplation of others' agony something bearable, supportable- something as we say, sufferable.

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

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

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

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