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
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
Worlds can be found by a child and an adult bending down and looking together under the grass stems or at the skittering crabs in a tidal pool.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.
– Mary Catherine Bateson
Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.