I Think The American University System Still

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

As A Religious Problem, The Problem Of Suffering Is, Paradoxically, Not How To Avoid Suffering But How To Suffer, How To Make Of Physical Pain, Personal Loss, Worldly Defeat, Or The Helpless Contemplation Of Others' Agony Something Bearable, Supportable- Something As We Say, Sufferable.

My Instincts Are Always Against People Who Want To Fasten Some Sort Of Hegemony Onto Things

Believing, With Max Weber, That Man Is An Animal Suspended In Webs Of Significance He Himself Has Spun, I Take Culture To Be Those Webs, And The Analysis Of It To Be Therefore Not An Experimental Science In Search Of Law But An Interpretive One In Search Of Meaning.

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