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

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.

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.

Maybe love is like rain. Sometimes gentle, sometimes torrential, flooding, eroding, joyful, steady, filling the earth, collecting in underground springs. When it rains, when we love, life grows.

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

I find the question of whether gender differences are biologically determined or socially constructed to be deeply disturbing.

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

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.

Theory can blind observation.

Pleasure is a sensation. It is written into our bodies; it is our experience of delight, of joy. ... Pleasure will become a marker, a compass pointing to emotional true north.

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

Respect yourself and others will come to respect you. That is true about all of us, but especially true about women. That is the meaning of honour.

It is the duty of youths to war against indiscipline and corruption because they are the leaders of tomorrow.

The secret of success in life is the persistent practice of making choices.

You are not mad. You are recovering from trauma. Mad people abused you,

All movement, of every creature, comes from the desire after something better.

In spite of the polls, the fact is that American Muslims are very happy and they thrive in this country.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

As we all know, it is the proper duty of every British subject to come to the aid of the TARDIS.