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I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology.

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

I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.

I honestly think anthropology is one of the most useful fields a fantasy writer can study, more so even than history.

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was a perception that women weren't important. And it's true. Women were seen historically as far inferior to men.

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.

I think feminists are unaware of the tremendous extent of the role of women in history.

I think that feminists have definitely underestimated the role that women have had historically. I think I would be insecure if I were to be a man; there's so much pressure on you.

Women have been interesting forever.

I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.