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 BatesonCaring can be learned by all human beings, can be worked into the design of every life, meeting an individual need as well as a pervasive need in society.
Mary Catherine BatesonA suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.
Mary Catherine BatesonThe timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
Mary Catherine BatesonHuman beings tend to regard the conventions of their own societies as natural, often as sacred.
Mary Catherine BatesonTraditionally 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 Bateson