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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 rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.

    Hurt   Justice   Care  
    In a Different Voice ch. 6 (1982)
  • 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.

    Emotional   Joy   Delight  
  • 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.

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

    Voice   People   Said  
  • Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

    Voice   Democracy   Speak  
  • 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.

    Mother   Baby   House  
  • While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.

    Powerful   Men   Feminine  
    Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.128, Harvard University Press
  • Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

  • 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.

    Men   Stories   Trouble  
    Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “IN A DIFFERENT VOICE”, p.6, Harvard University Press
  • 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.

    Real   Thinking   People  
    "10 Women of Philosophy, and Why You Should Know Them" by Scotty Hendricks, bigthink.com. September 2, 2017.
  • I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

    Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.12, Harvard University Press
  • The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

  • 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 (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.22, Harvard University Press
  • 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.

    Men   Vocabulary   Self  
    Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press
  • Theory can blind observation.

    Design   Blind   Theory  
    Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.34, Harvard University Press
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Men   Judgment   Variance  
    Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.63, Harvard University Press
  • 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.

    Spring   Rain   Love Life  
  • 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 (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.131, Harvard University Press
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