Carol Gilligan famous quotes

03-26-2025

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

#Voice #Democracy #Speak
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 to give their lives to others.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Mother #Children #Couple
Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Emotional #Joy #Delight
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Spring #Rain #Love Life
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 propensity for systematic mistranslation ...
-- Carol Gilligan

#Men #Vocabulary #Self
I've found that if I say what I'm really thinking and feeling, people are more likely to say what they really think and feel. The conversation becomes a real conversation.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Real #Thinking #People
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Sex #Differences #Justice
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Men #Judgment #Sensibility
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Lying #Responsibility #Voice
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

#Daughter #Roles #Half
While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equalityâ€”that everyone should be treated the sameâ€”an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolenceâ€”that no one should be hurt.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Hurt #Justice #Care
Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Crisis
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Voice #People #Said
Theory can blind observation.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Design #Blind #Theory
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Powerful #Men #Feminine
It all goes back, of course, to Adam and Eve - a story which shows among other things, that if you make a woman out of a man, you are bound to get into trouble.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Men #Stories #Trouble
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
-- Carol Gilligan

#Differences #Determined #Gender

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