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

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

A vision is best presented as a story that people can relate to.

I am but God's finger, John. If he would condemn Elizabeth, she will be condemned.

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.

I boil my tears in a twisted spoon And dance like an angel on the point of a needle.

What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.

I believe that people will do what is right and good if they are given a chance and are convinced that what they are being asked to do will truly help others.

We now have many of the answers that once eluded Darwin, thanks to two developments that he could not have imagined: continental drift and molecular taxonomy.

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it's hard to describe.

Forgiveness liberates the soul, it removes fear.

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.