Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without 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

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. - Mary Catherine Bateson

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives. - Mary Catherine Bateson

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. - Mary Catherine Bateson

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. - 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

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

Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. - Mary Catherine Bateson

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. - Mary Catherine Bateson

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