Carol Gilligan Quotes

Carol Gilligan is an American moral psychologist and feminist philosopher, professor at New York University, whose 1982 In a Different Voice transformed the field of moral psychology by giving sustained attention to the ways in which women, in her empirical interviews, articulated moral problems in a relational and contextual idiom that the dominant theories of moral development, such as Lawrence Kohlberg's, had treated as immature. Her later work in The Birth of Pleasure and Joining the Resistance has extended her care-based ethics into a philosophy of love, voice, and political resistance to the patriarchal silencing of women and girls. The quotes below are attributed to Carol Gilligan, organized by topic.