Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

"Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: Fear)

"Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: Reality)

"Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: Goals)

"Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: 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
(Related: Life, Will)

"The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: 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
(Related: Family, Metaphors, Understanding)

"The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: Death, Ending, Meaning)

"There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors."
- Mary Catherine Bateson
(Related: Metaphor, Metaphors)

"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
(Related: Man, May, Wishes, Woman)