Mary Catherine Bateson

The family is changing, not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.

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.

Goals too clearly defined can become blinkers.

The capacity to combine commitment with skepticism is essential to democracy.

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.