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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 · Page 2

> [“Real winners in a rapidly changing world will be those who are open to alternatives and able to respect and value those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/real-winners-in-a-rapidly-changing-world-will-be-those-who-are-open/)

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> [The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/the-family-is-changing-not-disappearing-we-have-to-broaden-our/)

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> [ “... active wisdom --an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. \[p. 52\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/active-wisdom-an-entire-cohort-with-something-new-to-offer-to-the/)

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> [The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/the-past-empowers-the-present-and-the-sweeping-footsteps-leading-to/)

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> [... as we age we have not only to readdress earlier developmental crises but also somehow to find the way to three…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/as-we-age-we-have-not-only-to-readdress-earlier-developmental-crises/)

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> [“A certain amount of friction is inevitable whenever peoples of different customs and assumptions meet… What is miraculous is how often it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/a-certain-amount-of-friction-is-inevitable-whenever-peoples-of/)

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> [“Physical things are eloquent tokens of ideas,enriched by new meanings through time even when the tokens are no more than evanescent paper…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/physical-things-are-eloquent-tokens-of-ideas-enriched-by-new-meanings/)

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> [The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/the-christian-tradition-was-passed-on-to-me-as-a-great-rich-mixture-a/)

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> [“Sorting gets harder as time goes on--it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/sorting-gets-harder-as-time-goes-on-it-requires-a-sort-of-ruthless/)

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> [The caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/the-caretaking-has-to-be-done-somebody-s-got-to-be-the-mommy/)

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> [“As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/as-people-grow-older-some-of-the-ways-they-have-contributed-in-the/)

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> [Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/jazz-exemplifies-artistic-activity-that-is-at-once-individual-and/)

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> [We do not need to understand other people and their customs fully to interact with them and learn in the process; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/we-do-not-need-to-understand-other-people-and-their-customs-fully-to/)

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> [Learning to savor the vertigo of doing without answers or making do with fragmentary ones opens up the pleasures of recognizing and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/learning-to-savor-the-vertigo-of-doing-without-answers-or-making-do/)

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> [When any relationship is characterized by difference, particularly a disparity in power, there remains a tendency to model it on the parent-child-relationship.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/when-any-relationship-is-characterized-by-difference-particularly-a/)

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> [Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/monotony-and-repetition-are-characteristic-of-many-parts-of-life-but/)

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> [“Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/moving-is-both-liberating-and-debilitating-undertaken-too-late-it-is/)

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> [“So this little boy was--I became her confidant a little too early, I think. It didn't seem to warp me exactly, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/so-this-little-boy-was-i-became-her-confidant-a-little-too-early-i/)

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> [“An encounter with other cultures can lead to openness only if you can suspend the assumption of superiority, not seeing new worlds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-catherine-bateson/an-encounter-with-other-cultures-can-lead-to-openness-only-if-you-can/)

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