I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for women living in patriarchy. — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life. — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Trust grows when babies and mothers establish that they can find each other again after the inevitable moments of losing touch. It is not… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard. — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
For a man to be a man, did he have to be a soldier, or at least prepare himself for war? For a woman to be a woman, did she have to be a mother, or at least prepare herself to raise children? Soldiers and mothers were the sacrificial couple, honored by statues in the park, lauded for their willingness… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard. — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really… — Carol Gilligan Copy Share Image
