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.
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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.Mary Catherine Bateson
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.
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.
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There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.
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The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.
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Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.
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