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

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

I ran out the door but it was to late..... i felt a sharp pain in my back as i heard the gun shoot

We could never muster the strength to make lasting changes in our lives. That's why we must rely on God's strength to transform us.

You may make love in dancing as well as sitting.

Valentine's Day gifts like teddy bears, chocolate and perfume are SO lame. How about be thoughtful and original?

Live your life; whatever that life may be.

They're not role models. So for me it was a bad decision, because of my fans and because of what I stand for.

A complete need should not exist... love, life in common with loved ones?

Sometimes, in a moral struggle, we discover the right thing to do - just as, on some cold day long ago, we discovered mittens pinned to our coat sleeve.

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, and no otherwise.