Carol Gilligan Quotes

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

I just gravitate to those more testosterone-filled sort of parts than me playing something a bit more fairy-like.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

I think that women can tend to look so feminine so easily. So it's interesting to see how we can look masculine and strong, too.

I've come to the conclusion that beautiful women in the West aren't comfortable finding strength in their femininity. They want to do masculine-oriented things to establish their femininity. It's a contradiction.

For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening. It's very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.

I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either.

You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women.

As far as I was concerned men were something you had around the place, not particularly interesting, but quite harmless. I had never shown the slightest feeling for them, and apart from my never wearing a skirt, saw nothing else in common between us.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.

All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.

I always say there's no more little girls, just boys with breasts. Girls act like boys nowadays. Teenage girls, they go after boys. They're predatory just like boys. My goal is to keep my girls, girls.

What is masculine and what is feminine, anyway?

Woman? Is that meant to insult me? I would return the slap, if I took you for a man. - Daenerys Targaryen

I don't think anyone can teach you how to be a man but a woman. You only learn by learning what they need.

It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.

Are you woman enough to be my man?

There aren't any hard women, only soft men.

Men are good but women are magic.

I think empowerment of women is exactly what's happening now, with women being portrayed as human beings, and not just black and white. Men can be the anti-hero all the time, and it's cool, but when women are, they're twisted or messed up or something is wrong with them. I think it's just about portraying women in the world as equals to men, and vice versa.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

Men are not supposed to be mysterious. That's what you say about women. But I think men can have a little of it, too.

Most of my friends are male. Men are more fun.