I never leave a sentence or a paragraph until I'm satisfied with it

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

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

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

If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.