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

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…

- Carol Gilligan

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…

- Carol Gilligan

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…

- Carol Gilligan

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground spri…

- Carol Gilligan

My research suggests that men and women may speak different languages that they assume are the same, using similar words to encode disparate experien…

- Carol Gilligan

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

- Carol Gilligan

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

- Carol Gilligan

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…

- Carol Gilligan