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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 who wishes she were not.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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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 on as well as a good place to remain.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
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Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
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Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
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