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"My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things."
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over."
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"For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion."
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"What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of black male patriarchy."
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"They're talking about banning cigarette smoking now in any place that's used by ten or more people in a week, which, I guess, means that Madonna can't even smoke in bed."
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"Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake - you know, to send the right message to kids."
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"The tea baggers. The one thing they hate is when you call them racist. The other thing they hate is black people. But they won't say it."
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"Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters."
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"I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!"
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"With Google I'm starting to burn out on knowing the answer to everything. People in the year 2020 are going to be nostalgic for the sensation of feeling clueless."
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"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."
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"I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist."
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"Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars."
Anthropology

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

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

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

"I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology."
Anthropology

"It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it."
Anthropology

"I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things."
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"If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code."
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"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."
Anthropology
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