Carol Gilligan People Quotations

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

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

I don't see myself as an icon. I was very moved by the response to my book; it brought me into relationship with many people whom I otherwise would not have met. I also discovered that in becoming a public figure, I became a focus for all kinds of projections that had little to do with me.