Carol Gilligan Quotes
Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
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I think we Americans tend to put too high a price on unanimity, as if there were something dangerous and illegitimate about honest differences of opinion honestly expressed by honest men.
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I want to encourage women to take control of their health.
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Men have not stacked the decks against women.
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In the X-Men the women are so strong and sexy! We really kick some male butt!
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Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Even after they had stopped modeling for Playboy and had settled down with other men to raise families of their own, Hugh Hefner still considered them his women, and in the bound volumes of his magazine he would always possess them.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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I know I'm never going to be one of those size 2 actresses – that's just not me. But I do want to be the healthiest I can be, and a role model to women of all shapes and sizes.
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This also is a part of the teaching of the Church, that there are certain angels of God, and certain good influences, which are His servants in accomplishing the salvation of men.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.
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There has to be a social commitment, a social consciousness that joins men together. On the basis of their coming together, they do not transgress against themselves and they do not transgress against others.
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So we all got basically what we wanted, and as far as the women are concerned, he figured that 30 good women could handle a crew of 300 anyway. So that's how we ended up with our crew.
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I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
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There's no question that tar sands in Canada are probably the largest source of oil available to the U.S. over a long period of time. There's as much oil in the tar sands probably as there is in Saudi Arabia. The problem is, there's a huge capital requirement to develop that.
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The American experiment has always depended on a measure of tolerance and good sense.
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As citizens of the United States, we are stewards of this magnificent thing called democracy.
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Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own which is at variance with that judgment.
