Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Teacher, Quickly, Forgotten
Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Goals, Clearly, Too, Defined
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
Will, Which, Remain, Stopping
Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Reality, Which, Central, Fluidity
The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Commitment, Skepticism, Combine
The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Family, Understanding, New, Metaphors
There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Think, Toxic, Metaphor, Metaphors
Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Sometimes, More, Than, Sharing
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
Woman, Discover, Always, Pleases
Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Food, Human Beings, Eat, Nutrients
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
- Mary Catherine Bateson
Death, Ending, Like, Timing
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