Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
Mary Catherine Bateson
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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