Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.
Mary Catherine BatesonWorlds 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 BatesonThe timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine BatesonThere are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson