“It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am… — Mary Catherine Bateson Age Copy Share Image
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the… — Mary Catherine Bateson Critical Copy Share Image
Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Built Copy Share Image
“ 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 Copy Share Image
“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people… — Mary Catherine Bateson Age Copy Share Image
Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in… — Mary Catherine Bateson Age Copy Share Image
“Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those… — Mary Catherine Bateson Openness Copy Share Image
“Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.” — Mary Catherine Bateson Self care Copy Share Image
A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training. — Mary Catherine Bateson Care Copy Share Image
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the… — Mary Catherine Bateson Adults Copy Share Image
“Physical things are eloquent tokens of ideas,enriched by new meanings through time even when the tokens are no more than evanescent paper… — Mary Catherine Bateson Time Copy Share Image
When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return. — Mary Catherine Bateson Dies Copy Share Image
“Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim… — Mary Catherine Bateson Adventure Copy Share Image
“After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The… — Mary Catherine Bateson Age Copy Share Image
What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of… — Mary Catherine Bateson Ability Copy Share Image
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. — Mary Catherine Bateson Generosity Copy Share Image
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man… — Mary Catherine Bateson Always Copy Share Image
Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go… — Mary Catherine Bateson Go Copy Share Image
A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even… — Mary Catherine Bateson Affirmation Copy Share Image
The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future. — Mary Catherine Bateson Empowering Copy Share Image
Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity. — Mary Catherine Bateson Creativity Copy Share Image
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Metaphor Copy Share Image
“A certain amount of friction is inevitable whenever peoples of different customs and assumptions meet.... What is miraculous is how often it… — Mary Catherine Bateson Faith Copy Share Image
