The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

—Mary Catherine Bateson

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Mary Catherine Bateson (December 8, 1939 – January 2, 2021) was an American writer and cultural anthropologist.

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We see achievement as purposeful and monolithic, like the sculpting of a massive tree trunk that has first to be brought from the forest and then shaped by long labor to assert the artist's vision, rather than something crafted from odds and ends, like a patchwork quilt, and lovingly used to warm different nights and bodies.

—Mary Catherine Bateson

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