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.

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.

Theory can blind observation.

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

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.

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.