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

I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything

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

One of the most significant facts about humanity may finally be that we all begin with the natural equipment to a live a thousand kinds of life but end in the end having lived only one

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

Man is an animal suspended in webs of significance he himself has spun.

Culture is public, because meaning is

Most anthropologists are doing straightforward ethnography, and should

Meaning is socially, historically, and rhetorically constructed.

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

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

Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever doesn't have, even what he has will be taken from him

There is no such thing as a pretty good omelette.

I try to not work too many Sundays. At least on Sunday nights, I try to chill out a little bit. I call it Sunday Funday.

There are male as well as female gossips.

Every room has a mood or personality...and it is this that one desires to develop.

Global warming has already triggered a sea level rise that could reach from 6 metres (19.69 ft) to 25 metres (27.34 yards).

I know the game is crazy, its more crazy than its ever been, im married to that crazy b*tch call me kevin federline

The friendly preacher who fails to warn of the reality of Hell, betrays the Son of God with a kiss.

I make films about working class people.