I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

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

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

A scholar can hardly be better employed than in destroying a fear.

Has feminism made us all more conscious? I think it has. Feminist critiques of anthropological masculine bias have been quite important, and they have increased my sensitivity to that kind of issue

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

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.