May 6
[Wassim Farah]
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“The differences between women and men which I describe center on a tendency for women and men to make different relational errors—for men to think that if they know themselves, following Socrates’ dictum, they will also know women, and for women to think that if only they know others, they will come to know themselves. Thus men and women tacitly collude in not voicing women’s experiences and build relationships around a silence that is maintained by men’s not knowing their disconnection from women and women’s not knowing their dissociation from themselves. Much talk about relationships and about love carefully conceals these truths.”
— Carol Gilligan, In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women’s Development
