Carol Gilligan Quotes

#1. I really knew how to speak - from my female voice, that "different voice" that Carol Gilligan so presciently described many years ago in her groundbreaking book. Because if we try to speak in a voice that isn't ours, we lose our power.

Elizabeth Lesser

#2. Read at a time when everything feels intense, seminal, and like you're the first person to discover it, freshman year of college, Carol Gilligan's 'In a Different Voice' made my hair stand on end with awe.

Emma McLaughlin

#3. As the psychologist Carol Gilligan has written, "Women's sense of integrity seems to be entwined with an ethic of care, so that to see themselves as women is to see themselves in a relationship of connection.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. In Spain, however, people have found a way of cheating death. They summon it to appear in the afternoon in the bull ring, and they make it face a man. Death - a fighting bull with horns as weapons - is killed by a bullfighter. And the people are there watching death being cheated of its right.

Maia Wojciechowska

#5. Girls can do anything boys can do in high heels!

Brooke Sachau

#6. 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

#7. Living at once inside and outside the framework, Hester is able to see the frame.

Carol Gilligan

#8. 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

#9. When you are making plans, your better angels point to the nourishing choices, but in the moment you go for what tastes good.

David McRaney

#10. 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

#11. Our feelings are not there to be cast out or conquered. They're there to be engaged and expressed with imagination and intelligence.

T.K. Coleman

#12. The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

Carol Gilligan

#13. Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.

Carol Gilligan

#14. And when all your faith is gone let it be me, if it's a friend you need let it be me

Ray Lamontagne

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Crowd is a gold mine, you can find many treasures over there; solitude is a gold mind, you can find many treasures over there. As long as you are determined to find treasures, the right place to look for them is everywhere!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#18. Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.

Carol Gilligan

#19. 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

#20. Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

Carol Gilligan

#21. How many other lives are hidden, and hearts are seeking? How many would give anything in the world to be held by the person they love?

Rachel Simon

#22. Theory can blind observation.

Carol Gilligan

#23. 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 of nonviolence - that no one should be hurt.

Carol Gilligan

#24. 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

#25. Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.

Carol Gilligan

#26. While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

Carol Gilligan

#27. Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.

Alison Goldfrapp

#28. I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

Carol Gilligan

#29. 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

#30. For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.

Jon Bon Jovi

#31. 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

#32. 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 a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

Carol Gilligan

#33. This knotted dilemma lies at the center of women's development. How can girls both enter and stay outside of, be educated in and then try to change, what for millennia has been a man's world?

Carol Gilligan

#34. The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

Kristin Hannah

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

Carol Gilligan