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

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

Trust grows when babies and mothers establish that they can find each other again after the inevitable moments of losing touch. It is not the goodness of the mother or the relationship per se that is the basis for trust; it is the ability of mother and baby together to repair the breaks in their relationship that builds a safe house for love.

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

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.

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.

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