Quotes by Carol Gilligan - Page 1

Theory can blind observation.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Design
Blind
Theory
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Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Crisis
Perpetual
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The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Felt
Heard
People
Said
Voice
Me People Voice
Challenged
Me Voice People
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Certain issues have been associated with contemporary feminism and in a certain sense circumscribed for that reason.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Contemporary
Feminism
Associated
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The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Ethics
People
Sacrifice
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I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Determined
Differences
Disturbing
Gender
Biologically
Constructed
Deeply
Question
Socially
Whether
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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 / Psychologist
Democracy
Speak
Voice
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While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Men
Feminine
Powerful
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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 / Psychologist
Men
Judgment
Sensibility
Variance
Deferred
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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 / Psychologist
Men
Adam
Adam And Eve
Shows
Stories
Trouble
Among
Bound
Course
Eve
Goes
Story
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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 / Psychologist
Daughter
Half
Roles
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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 / Psychologist
Women Me Remember
Suddenly
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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 / Psychologist
Conversation
People
Real
Thinking
Thinking People Feel
Likely
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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 / Psychologist
Delight
Emotional
Joy
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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 / Psychologist
Relationship
Failure
Truth
Aggression
Care
Different
Lying
Responsibility
Ties
Voice
Between
Connection
Ethic
Lies
Origins
Tie
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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.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Care
Hurt
Justice
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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 / Psychologist
Equality
Differences
Discrimination
Justice
Sex
Eradicate
Efforts
Rediscovered
Search
Sexes
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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 / Psychologist
Love Life
Rain
Spring
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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 / Psychologist
Movement
Counter
Divide
Effective
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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 / Psychologist
Men
Self
Vocabulary
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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 / Psychologist
Children
Couple
Mother
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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.
Carol Gilligan / Psychologist
Baby
House
Mother
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