13 ordspråk av Mary Catherine Bateson
Mary Catherine Bateson
 ...a disgruntled reflection on my own life as a sort of desperate improvisation in which I was constantly trying to make something coherent from conflicting elements to fit rapidly changing settings. |
| Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten. |
| Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live. |
| Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers. |
| Human beings do not eat nutrients, they eat food. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving. |
| The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy. |
| 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. |
| The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors. |
| The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. |
| There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. |
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