Women have traditionally deferred to the judgment of men although often while intimating a sensibility of their own … - Carol Gilligan

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I came to the conclusion long ago that limits to innovation have less to do with technology or creativity than organizational agility. Inspired individuals can only do so much.

Carol Gilligan

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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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.

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