"While men represent powerful activity as assertion and……" — Carol Gilligan
"While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength."
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Carol Gilligan
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15 Quotes by Carol Gilligan
Carol Gilligan has 15 quotes on this site.
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It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if…
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Theory can blind observation.
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The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was…
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Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.
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While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care…
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I used to tell women graduate students, half-seriously, that the role of slightly rebellious daughter was one of the better…
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In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility,…
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Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is…
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At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality…
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I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they…
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I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
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Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly…
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More Activity Quotes
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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
— Margaret Atwood
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
— Dave Barry
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To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.
— Martha Beck
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If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
— Alan Bennett
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The activity of a singer that sings opera is similar to that of an athlete.
— Andrea Bocelli
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The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
— Edward de Bono
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Reading is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment.…
— Jo Brand
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Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in…
— Jacob Bronowski
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Where I grew up, in Des Moines, Iowa, there is hardly any downtown economic activity now. Everybody shops in malls…
— Bill Bryson
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