Occupation: Psychologist Birth: November 28, 1936
My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experien….
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….
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 pointin….
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that ju….
The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard..
Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard..
Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground spri….
At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences be….
I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing..
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 in….
While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength..
The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from 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….
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 a….
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 non….
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 become….
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 goodne….
Theory can blind observation..
Everything about women is in perpetual crisis..