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

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

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

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.

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

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

While an ethic of justice proceeds from the premise of equality—that everyone should be treated the same—an ethic of care rests on the premise of nonviolence—that no one should be hurt.