The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful… — Carol Gilligan Almost 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 Blind 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… — Carol Gilligan Judgment 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… — Carol Gilligan Ability Copy Share Image
Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and… — Carol Gilligan Democracy Copy Share Image
Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason. — Carol Gilligan Associated 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… — Carol Gilligan Be a man Copy Share Image
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard. — Carol Gilligan Felt 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… — Carol Gilligan Care 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… — Carol Gilligan About Copy Share Image
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength. — Carol Gilligan Activity Copy Share Image
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the… — Carol Gilligan Aggression Copy Share Image
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make… — Carol Gilligan Adam Copy Share Image
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode… — Carol Gilligan Assuming Copy Share Image
I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better roles for… — Carol Gilligan Children Copy Share Image
I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think… — Carol Gilligan Communication Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become… — Carol Gilligan Body Copy Share Image
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing. — Carol Gilligan Determined Copy Share Image
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it… — Carol Gilligan Collecting Copy Share Image
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice,… — Carol Gilligan Differences Copy Share Image