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Mary Catherine Bateson
American
Scientist
About the author
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Giving
#Sharing
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Fear
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Reality
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Goals
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Food
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,
American
Scientist
#Life
#Will
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Commitment
#Democracy
#Skepticism
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Family
#Understanding
#Metaphors
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Death
#Ending
#Meaning
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson,
American
Scientist
#Metaphors
#Metaphor
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,
American
Scientist
#May
#Man
#Woman
#Wishes