Mary Catherine Bateson

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#changed #ending #gives #like #meaning

We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay.[p. 82] ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#age

... active wisdom--an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52] ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#age

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

#discover #happily #her #how #man

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

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#few #few things #metaphor #metaphors #things

Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discontinuity #fluidity #live #reality #which

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#blinkers #clearly #defined #goals #too

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

#ask #go #good #good place #life

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#giving #more #sharing #sometimes #than

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

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