My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experiences of self and social relationships. Because these languages share an overlapping moral vocabulary, they contain a… — 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
