Quotes by Carol Gilligan

• The hardest times for me were not when people challenged what I said, but when I felt my voice was not heard.
• The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.
• Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt suddenly that what they really thought or felt about things made sense.
• 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.
• 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.