List of Carol Gilligan Quotes

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.

Everything About Women Is In Perpetual Crisis.

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.

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.

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.

The Blind Willingness To Sacrifice People To Truth, However, Has Always Been The Danger Of An Ethics Abstracted From Life.

Trust Grows When Babies And Mothers Establish That They Can Find Each Other Again After The Inevitable Moments Of Losing Touch. It Is Not The Goodness Of The Mother Or The Relationship Per Se That Is The Basis For Trust; It Is The Ability Of Mother And Baby Together To Repair The Breaks In Their Relationship That Builds A Safe House For Love.

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.

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.

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.

I Find The Question Of Whether Gender Differences Are Biologically Determined Or Socially Constructed To Be Deeply Disturbing.

Theory Can Blind Observation.