“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
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
“... 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 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
... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three… — Mary Catherine Bateson Affirmation 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
“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 Copy Share Image
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from… — Mary Catherine Bateson Catholic Copy Share Image
“Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they… — Mary Catherine Bateson Age Copy Share Image
The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we… — Mary Catherine Bateson Caretaking Copy Share Image
“As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge… — Mary Catherine Bateson Age Copy Share Image
Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship.… — Mary Catherine Bateson Benevolence 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 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
“So this little boy was--I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but… — Mary Catherine Bateson Confidant Copy Share Image
“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds… — Mary Catherine Bateson Anthropology Copy Share Image
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