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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.