Carol Gilligan Quotes

Carol Gilligan — American Psychologist born on November 28, 1936,

Carol Gilligan is an American feminist, ethicist, and psychologist best known for her work with and against Lawrence Kohlberg on ethical community and ethical relationships, and certain subject-object problems in ethics... (wikipedia)

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.

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.

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

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.

Carol Gilligan Quotes

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