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Bateson, Mary
English historian
sister of William Bateson
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- "The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful."
- "The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe."
- "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."
- "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."
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Composing a Life by Mary Catherine Bateson (Paperback - May 10, 2001) Mary Catherine Bateson has been called "one of the most original and important thinkers of our time" (Deborah Tannen). Grove Press is pleased to reissue Bateson's deeply satisfying treatise on the...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Peripheral Visions: Learning along the Way by Mary C. Bateson (Paperback - May 24, 1995) Mary Catherine Bateson, author ofComposing a Life,is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar.Peripheral Visionsbegins...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition by Mary Cather Bateson (Paperback - Feb 27, 2001) "Home is the heartland of strangeness," writes anthropologist and English professor Mary Catherine Bateson; there are always parts of others, even our closest intimates, that are utterly unknowable... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery by Mary Catherine Bateson (Hardcover - Oct 12, 2004) WRITER AND EDUCATOR Mary Catherine Bateson is best known for the proposal that lives should be looked at as compositions, each one an artistic creation expressing individual responses to the... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Angels Fear: Towards An Epistemology Of The Sacred (Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Scienc) by Gregory Bateson and Mary Catherine Bateson (Paperback - Dec 30, 2004) |
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With a Daughter's Eye: Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, A by Mary C. Bateson (Paperback - Jan 26, 1994) InWith a Daughter's Eye, writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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