The blind willingness to sacrifice people to truth, however, has always been the danger of an ethics abstracted from life.

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 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.

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

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

Theory can blind observation.

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.