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# Mary Catherine Bateson

(1939–2021)   Anthropologist   United States

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Mary Catherine Bateson was an anthropologist from the United States, best known for *With a daughter's eye*.

## Quick Facts About Mary Catherine Bateson

Born December 8, 1939

Died January 2, 2021

Nationality United States

Profession Anthropologist

Notable works With a daughter's eye

## About Mary Catherine Bateson

Mary Catherine Bateson was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.

## Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship

##  Quotes by Mary Catherine Bateson

> [Often continuity is visible only in retrospect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/often-continuity-is-visible-only-in-retrospect/)

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[Continuity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/continuity/)

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> [Solutions to problems often depend upon how they're defined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/solutions-to-problems-often-depend-upon-how-they-re-defined/)

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[Defined](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/defined/)

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> [In many ways, constancy is an illusion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/in-many-ways-constancy-is-an-illusion/)

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[Constancy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/constancy/)

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> [Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/goals-too-clearly-defined-can-become-blinkers/)

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[Blinkers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blinkers/)

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> [“Self-care should include the cold shower as well as the scented tub.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/self-care-should-include-the-cold-shower-as-well-as-the-scented-tub/)

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[Self care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/self-care/)

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> [Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/fluidity-and-discontinuity-are-central-to-the-reality-in-which-we-live/)

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[Discontinuity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/discontinuity/)

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> [Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/fear-is-not-a-good-teacher-the-lessons-of-fear-are-quickly-forgotten/)

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[Fear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fear/)

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> [The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/the-capacity-to-combine-commitment-with-skepticism-is-essential-to/)

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[Capacity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capacity/)

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> [When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/when-parents-die-all-of-the-partings-of-the-past-are-reevoked-with/)

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[Dies](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dies/)

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> [Human beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/human-beings-tend-to-regard-the-conventions-of-their-own-societies-as/)

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[Conventions](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conventions/)

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> [ “ We never promised we would stay the same,/But only we would shape our change/From this now single clay. \[p. 82\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/we-never-promised-we-would-stay-the-same-but-only-we-would-shape-our/)

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[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

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> [There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/there-are-few-things-as-toxic-as-a-bad-metaphor-you-can-t-think/)

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[Metaphor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/metaphor/)

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> [Caring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/caring-can-be-learned-by-all-human-beings-can-be-worked-into-the/)

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> [Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/worlds-can-be-found-by-a-child-and-an-adult-bending-down-and-looking/)

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[Adults](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adults/)

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> [Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/of-any-stopping-place-in-life-it-is-good-to-ask-whether-it-will-be-a/)

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[Go](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/go/)

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> [As you get up in the morning, as you make decisions, as you spend money, make friends, make commitments, you are creating…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/as-you-get-up-in-the-morning-as-you-make-decisions-as-you-spend-money/)

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> [I had repeatedly accepted inappropriate burdens, stepping in to do what needed to be done. In retrospect, I think I carried them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/i-had-repeatedly-accepted-inappropriate-burdens-stepping-in-to-do/)

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> [“It's all about being in control of myself as an older woman who lives alone, and it's all about how I am…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/it-s-all-about-being-in-control-of-myself-as-an-older-woman-who-lives/)

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> [“After all, most of us have lived lives based on commitments made without any way of knowing where they would lead. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/after-all-most-of-us-have-lived-lives-based-on-commitments-made/)

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> [Insight, I believe, refers to the depth of understanding that comes by setting experiences, yours and mine, familiar and exotic, new and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/insight-i-believe-refers-to-the-depth-of-understanding-that-comes-by/)

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[Believe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believe/)

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> [...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/a-disgruntled-reflection-on-my-own-life-as-a-sort-of-desperate/)

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[Desperate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/desperate/)

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> [Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/improvisation-and-new-learning-are-not-private-processes-they-are/)

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[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

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> [“Since few people arrive at retirement with an understanding that this transition will involve a rethinking of who they are, an interim…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/since-few-people-arrive-at-retirement-with-an-understanding-that-this/)

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[Adventure](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventure/)

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> [The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/the-critical-question-about-regret-is-whether-experience-led-to/)

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[Critical](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/critical/)

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> [Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/orthodox-judaism-is-a-thicket-of-detailed-injunctions-biblical/)

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[Believer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/believer/)

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> [A glad welcome to this affirmation by a group of psychologists that the self does not stop at the skin nor even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/a-glad-welcome-to-this-affirmation-by-a-group-of-psychologists-that/)

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[Affirmation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affirmation/)

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> [Rarely is it possible to study all of the instructions to a game before beginning to play, or to memorize the manual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/rarely-is-it-possible-to-study-all-of-the-instructions-to-a-game/)

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[Adrenaline](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adrenaline/)

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> [Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/wherever-a-story-comes-from-whether-it-is-a-familiar-myth-or-a/)

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[Approach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/approach/)

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> [Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/traditionally-in-american-society-men-have-been-trained-for-both/)

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[American society](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/american-society/)

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> [In many ways, constancy is an illusion. After all, our ancestors were immigrants, many of them moving on every few years; today…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/in-many-ways-constancy-is-an-illusion-after-all-our-ancestors-were/)

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[Adaptation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adaptation/)

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> [We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/we-are-not-what-we-know-but-what-we-are-willing-to-learn/)

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[Education](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/education/)

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> [Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/human-beings-do-not-eat-nutrients-they-eat-food/)

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[Food](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/food/)

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> [Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/sharing-is-sometimes-more-demanding-than-giving/)

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[Demanding](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/demanding/)

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> [Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/improvisation-can-be-either-a-last-resort-or-an-established-way-of/)

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[Creativity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/creativity/)

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> [The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/the-timing-of-death-like-the-ending-of-a-story-gives-a-changed/)

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[Death](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/death/)

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> [Most higher education is devoted to affirming the traditions and origins of an existing elite and transmitting them to new members.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/most-higher-education-is-devoted-to-affirming-the-traditions-and/)

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[Affirming](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affirming/)

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> [Every loss recapitulates earlier losses, but every affirmation of identity echoes earlier moments of clarity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/every-loss-recapitulates-earlier-losses-but-every-affirmation-of/)

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[Affirmation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/affirmation/)

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> [What would it be like to have not only color vision but culture vision, the ability to see the multiple worlds of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/what-would-it-be-like-to-have-not-only-color-vision-but-culture/)

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[Ability](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ability/)

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> [A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/a-suprising-number-of-physicians-manage-to-continue-to-care-about/)

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[Care](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/care/)

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> [No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/no-matter-how-happily-a-woman-may-be-married-it-always-pleases-her-to/)

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[Always](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/always/)

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