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 GilliganI find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.
Carol GilliganWhile an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equalityโthat everyone should be treated the sameโan ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolenceโthat no one should be hurt.
Carol GilliganThe blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.
Carol GilliganMy 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