The past empowers the present, and the sweeping footsteps leading to this present mark the pathways to the future.
Mary Catherine BatesonThe caretaking has to be done. "Somebody's got to be the mommy." Individually, we underestimate this need, and as a society we make inadequate provision for it. Women take up the slack, making the need invisible as we step in to fill it.
Mary Catherine BatesonThere are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
Mary Catherine Bateson