Taste classifies, and it classifies the classifier

The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need for words, and ask no more than complicitous silence.

Male domination is so rooted in our collective unconscious that we no longer even see it.

The function of sociology, as of every science, is to reveal that which is hidden.

The difficulty, in sociology, is to manage to think in a completely astonished and disconcerted way about things you thought you had always understood.

Every established order tends to produce the naturalization of its own arbitrariness.

I often say that sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks.

Television enjoys a de facto monopoly on what goes into the heads of a significant part of the population and what they think.

Symbolic violence is violence wielded with tacit complicity between its victims and its agents, insofar as both remain unconscious of submitting to or wielding it.

The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects.

The point of my work is to show that culture and education aren't simply hobbies or minor influences.

Making good decisions is a skill anyone can develop with effort.

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

I was known as the little girl with the big voice.

I haven't had a vacation in years. I'd really like to sneak off and just run around on a beach for a while.

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

We chose it because we deal with huge amounts of data. Besides, it sounds really cool.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

It's important for people to figure out their own lives before involving someone else - to gauge where you are and work on your own issues.

I don't have lavish taste.

One gains by losing self for others and not by hoarding for oneself.